"I don't get nervous when I'm directing a……" — Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

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111 Quotes by Philip Seymour Hoffman

Philip Seymour Hoffman has 111 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I try to live my life in such a way that I don't have any regrets. That's probably why I…
All over the world, young men and young women will always dream dreams.
I think I would have drank myself to death, literally, if I didn't just stop, once and for all when…
My favorite thing about acting is being alone and going through the scripts and working on it and getting ideas…
Acting is so difficult for me that, unless the work is of a certain stature in my mind, unless I…
A lot of people describe me as chubby, which seems so easy, so first-choice. Or stocky. Fair-skinned. Tow-headed. There are…
I don't know, I was young, I drank too much, you know, so I stopped. You know what I mean,…
Learning how to die is therefore learning how to live,
The strange thing is I never thought I'd do films,
You must be really bad, because it is a puzzle. Creating anything is hard. It’s a cliché thing to say,…
Was I happy? Or was I just not aware?
Great talent admits shortcomings.

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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. — Hannah Arendt
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the… — Victoria Abril
For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a… — Mary Kay Ash
We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation… — Julian Assange
I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling… — Rowan Atkinson
What I enjoy most is travelling to different places and meeting new people. For me, it's all about life experiences,… — Jensen Ackles
You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social… — Amitabh Bachchan
I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different… — Kevin Bacon
A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly. — Kevin Bacon
I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game. — Kevin Bacon

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