I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting. — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
I've seen a lot of friends who have a lot of great projects, whether it's a script or a play or whatever,… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
Sometimes I take a temperature of things just because everyone else does. Especially when I'm doing a play. I want to know… — 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
I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York,… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
Actors are responsible to the people we play. I don't label or judge. I just play them as honestly and expressively and… — 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
Study, find all the good teachers and study with them, get involved in acting to act, not to be famous or for… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
I got into plays in high school then I ended up going to college for it. — 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