Knows Quotes by Philip Seymour Hoffman

To act well isn't an easy thing.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

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

I don't want to repeat myself.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

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

Creating anything is hard.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

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

In a film there a lot of people scheduling, you know.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

You have all the influence you choose to have.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman