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 Image
We really enjoy that, having a relationship with writers, developing material and getting a director, actors, that we have kind of that… — 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
With "Good Night, and Good Luck," I think it's kind of obvious what [Truman Capote]'s getting at there, and the importance of… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
I think you ultimately have to love who you're playing. You have to have that kind of feeling. You have to have… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
People aren't going to throw the kind of money at certain people that they used to. — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
When you see the carrot at the end of the stick, what do you do to get it? These kinds of things… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
A lot of people describe me as chubby, which seems so easy, so first-choice. Or stocky. Fair-skinned. Tow-headed. There are so many… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction. — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
When you're acting, you're subjective; when you're a director, you're more objective.You're kind of watching from the outside and helping others, and… — 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 Image
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 Image
Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it. — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting. — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
