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
If I was a little bit younger I would worry more. I'd want to do one thing at a time but now… — 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
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'm probably more personal when I'm acting than at any other time. More open, more direct. Because it allows me to be… — 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
a self-awareness moment. All of a sudden everything he has done comes flashing into his mind, a self-criticism that is unbearable. — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
When people don't know who you are, they're seeing your work for the first time. But if they've seen a lot, getting… — 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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