For me, acting is torturous, and it's torturous because you know it's a beautiful thing. I was young once, and I said,… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
I don't want to repeat myself. I'm not going to play a guy like Allen in Happiness again any time soon because… — 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
When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about. — 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
You have to have a personal connection. You have to really want to do it, because if you don't, investing yourself personally,… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
I know that obviously, that if you want to get the story, if you want to get close to somebody, if you… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
No one wants to be pretentious about what they do or take it seriously, because that is just weird. — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's hard to say no. Ultimately, if you stick to your guns, you have the career that you want. Don't get… — 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 feel like the need to want to create and make something is stronger than the difficulties are going through. — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
There's things that you don't want to do and they keep haunting you and following you. Bennett Miller directed this project [Capote],… — 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
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
