Philip Seymour Hoffman

To act well isn't an easy thing.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I would never not work on the part without it playing. That's what being an actor is. You use everything that's influenced…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I have a fine level of recognition in the business and among the acting community now, so I consider myself one of…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I don't want to repeat myself.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I was a breed of people who aren't capable of doing anything, really. At college I began to get the idea that…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

Creating anything is hard.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate. But it's one that you have…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

In a film there a lot of people scheduling, you know.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

You have all the influence you choose to have.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I have an awful memory, and I have a great memory. Meaning that, if I'm trying to remember something, I can't remember…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

We really enjoy that, having a relationship with writers, developing material and getting a director, actors, that we have kind of that…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

In film, you have to let go sometimes.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

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

I didn't really buy LPs or go to concerts.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

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

Acting is so difficult for me that, unless the work is of a certain stature in my mind, unless I reach the…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman