Philip Seymour Hoffman

I've worked with a lot of characters that are unhinged. I've played characters that are unhinged. That's, like, my job.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

Women are the life force we look at for their beauty.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

There's nothing risky in talking about your personal life. People do it all the time.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

The drama nerd comes out in me when I'm in a theater.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I've been reading a bunch of stuff lately - like Joseph Campbell - that has made me realize that people in our…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

In order for something to be born, something has to die.That's not always, but there is something about that that I find…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

My image of Jesus is someone who is exciting...Were he alive today, he would be causing havoc!

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I had insecurities and fears like everybody does, and I got over it. But I was interested in the parts of me…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I don't know, I was young, I drank too much, you know, so I stopped. You know what I mean, it's not…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

People aren't going to throw the kind of money at certain people that they used to.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

Plays never feel like the right thing to do at the time.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I think part of being an actor is staying private.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

Was I happy? Or was I just not aware?

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York,…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

If all people are encouraged to actually see who they're coexisting with, or even if they're not coexisting with other people.It's like…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

One person's religion is another person's cult.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

I try not to plan that too much.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

Actors are responsible to the people we play.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

My favorite thing about acting is being alone and going through the scripts and working on it and getting ideas and asking…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

When you see the carrot at the end of the stick, what do you do to get it? These kinds of things…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman