I would definitely say pleasure is not happiness. Because I think I kill pleasure. Like I take too much of it in,… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do. — 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
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
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
To be loved, I think, is the thing that gets you up in the morning. — 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 think I would have drank myself to death, literally, if I didn't just stop, once and for all when I did.… — 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
Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
I think good art, if I could be pretentious enough to say, I think good art deals with the micro to explain… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
To have that concentration to act well is like lugging things up staircases in your brain. I think that’s a thing people… — 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
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
I think Magnolia is one of the best films I've ever seen and I can say that straight and out and anybody… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
When you read, you think, and when you smoke, you think. It's a pleasurable thing, and not a duty. — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
Acting's difficult for me because I think you have to be passionately involved in what you're doing. — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
Frankly, I get much more sensitive about what's written about me than how I look in a photo. I'm so used to… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
Ultimately, I think writing is a mixture of craft, inspiration, and being incredibly, courageously explorative with yourself - and being brutally honest,… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
I think you gotta have an honesty and a humility about human nature and that it's not about you at the end… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
I have three children and I think I'm happy when I'm with them and they're okay. When I see them enjoying each… — 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
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