Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes

The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

True, Someone, Else

I had insecurities and fears like everybody does, and I got over it. But I was interested in the parts of me that struggled with those things.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Everybody, Interested, Fears

Good work is the only thing that would make me feel jealous or envious.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Work, Good, Jealous

If I don't feel like I'm doing the job well, and I don't know how to get there, or I'm too scared, or whatever, I'm not a happy guy and I'm not pleasant. I'm not pleasant to be around.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Happy, Job, Around

The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Ambition, Succeed, Attention

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Parents, Become, Child

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 go of ultimately.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Someone, Playing, Lived

Yeah, writers do hate writing.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Hate, Writing, Writers

You can look at anything as a cult. Churches are cults in their own way.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Cult, Cults, Churches

Actors are investigators.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Actors are responsible to the people we play.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Good, Remember, Matter

Creating anything is hard.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Creating something is all about problem-solving.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Amazing, Yourself, Others

Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Hard, Show, Gun

Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

I didn't go out looking for negative characters; I went out looking for people who have a struggle and a fight to tackle. That's what interests me.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Struggle, Fight, Negative

I didn't have any idea that I would be able to have a career in film.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Career, Able, Idea

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

I do understand what it is to not want to commit to someone, knowing that might bring pain or commit to a life that has to do with being responsible to people other than myself. These things, I think, are normal things.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Life, Pain, Someone

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

Play, Acting, Nervous

I don't have a specific thing I want anyone to get out of anything I do.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Anyone, Specific

I don't want to repeat myself.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

I got into plays in high school then I ended up going to college for it.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

School, College, High

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: July 23, 1967

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