Being with a kid always takes you to being a kid somehow, and they really are showing me a childhood I might… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
You can look at anything as a cult. Churches are cults in their own way. — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
If I'm directing actors, I learn about acting that way. If I'm acting, I learn about directing that way. Producing is just… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work… — 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
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
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
A lot of people describe me as chubby, which seems so easy, so first-choice. Or stocky. Fair-skinned. Tow-headed. There are so many… — 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
![“With "Good Night, and Good Luck," I think it's kind of obvious what [Truman Capote]'s getting at there, and the importance of how it's playing out today, that is journalism doing, are the journalists doing their job, are they being the other checks and balances in our country that the way that…” quote by Philip Seymour Hoffman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e49/philip-seymour-hoffman-2704_balance_with-good-night-and-good-luck-i-think-it_536205.jpg)
