My mum's name is Marilyn O'Connor. She's here tonight and I would like if you see her for you to congratulate her… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
You have to have a personal connection. You have to really want to do it, because if you don't, investing yourself personally,… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
Study, find all the good teachers and study with them, get involved in acting to act, not to be famous or for… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
If I'm directing actors, I learn about acting that way. If I'm acting, I learn about directing that way. Producing is just… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
I do feel like all the people I meet, all the people I'm in discussions with, if I'm working with somebody, I… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
I have an awful memory, and I have a great memory. Meaning that, if I'm trying to remember something, I can't remember… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
I think good art, if I could be pretentious enough to say, I think good art deals with the micro to explain… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's hard to say no. Ultimately, if you stick to your guns, you have the career that you want. Don't get… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
Success isn't what makes you happy. It really isn't. Success is doing what makes you happy and doing good work and hopefully… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
I know that obviously, that if you want to get the story, if you want to get close to somebody, if you… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
Acting is so difficult for me that, unless the work is of a certain stature in my mind, unless I reach the… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
To have that concentration to act well is like lugging things up staircases in your brain. I think that’s a thing people… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
I think I would have drank myself to death, literally, if I didn't just stop, once and for all when I did.… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
If all people are encouraged to actually see who they're coexisting with, or even if they're not coexisting with other people.It's like… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
I would never not work on the part without it playing. That's what being an actor is. You use everything that's influenced you to… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share
I have a fine level of recognition in the business and among the acting community now, so I consider myself one of the lucky… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share
Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it. — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share
I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting. — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share
I was a breed of people who aren't capable of doing anything, really. At college I began to get the idea that being macho… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share
I would definitely say pleasure is not happiness. Because I think I kill pleasure. Like I take too much of it in, and therefore… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share
For me, acting is torturous, and it's torturous because you know it's a beautiful thing. I was young once, and I said, that's beautiful… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share
When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate. But it's one that you have to let… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share
I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid. — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share
I've seen a lot of friends who have a lot of great projects, whether it's a script or a play or whatever, and it… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share
