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
People aren't going to throw the kind of money at certain people that they used to. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
![“With "Good Night, and Good Luck," I think it's kind of obvious what [Truman Capote]'s getting at there, and the importance of how it's playing out today, that is journalism doing, are the journalists doing their job, are they being the other checks and balances in our country that the way that…” quote by Philip Seymour Hoffman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e49/philip-seymour-hoffman-2704_balance_with-good-night-and-good-luck-i-think-it_536205.jpg)
