You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career… — 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 must be really bad, because it is a puzzle. Creating anything is hard. It’s a cliché thing to say, but every… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
I've had to make the transition from sweeping in for 15 minutes, doing my stuff and clearing out, to carrying a movie… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
Bob Glaudini, the writer, he's a wonderfully talented man and all his plays and his screenplays, they all have sense of something… — 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 wasn't the accepted norm in the liberal world, and especially the world I entered into, which was the artistic world. I had a lot of problems with that because I was struggling with the need to… — 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 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
