Quotes By Philip Seymour Hoffman

I had a father who was a traveling salesman.

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

People actually live with their id exposed. They're not good at concealing what's going on inside.

My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise.

Creating anything is hard.

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.

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.

My girlfriend's a costume designer in the theater.

My ideal weight is 205, actually.

You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.

To be fair to my dad, he is one of the brightest men I've ever met.

I know some really great actors who are pretty judgmental people, pretty critical people. But they're great actors. When they're acting, that's the craft.

When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about.

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

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.

If I was a little bit younger I would worry more. I'd want to do one thing at a time but now I try to do a bunch of different things at a time if I can.

The size of my head though is pretty abnormal.

It's hard for anybody who works a lot and has children. But I wouldn't trade it for anything.

Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love.

The idea that you have a vision of what you're supposed to be, or going to be, or where your kids are going to be - and that that doesn't work out - is always going to be something that's going to affect people and move people.

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

I think part of being an actor is staying private.

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

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.

I think therapy is a helpful thing. I think everyone knows it. You do it for your life, you do it for yourself, because you want to explore some things, and get at the bottom of some things. It's about your life, the quality of your life.

Yeah, writers do hate writing.

My mum is incredibly intelligent.

I try not to plan that too much.

Actors are investigators.

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