Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it. — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
Life is short. Time is short. As we get older, time does quicken. It's long, and it's long pertaining to that thought,… — 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
There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
There's something in the very small minutia of life that tells us something about the big, big picture that we see every… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
When you think about [Truman] Capote in the - was what he did exploitative of a person's life or exploitative of these… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
There's nothing risky in talking about your personal life. People do it all the time. — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
I think you should be serious about what you do because this is it. This is the only life you've got. — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
There’s a period of time in your life when I kind of look back, and I’m like, was I happy, or was… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
I think therapy is a helpful thing. I think everyone knows it. You do it for your life, you do it for… — 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 try to live my life in such a way that I don't have any regrets. That's probably why I work so… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
In life, do you ever really know if you're missing an opportunity? No, you really don't. — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a… — 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