Quotes By Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

Ultimately what I'll do next is up in the air for me.

I got sober when I was 22 years old.

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

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.

Why you do something is always kind of a mystery to me.

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

If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.

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

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

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

In film, you have to let go sometimes.

Actors are responsible to the people we play.

I like to come to the set with very strong ideas and strong opinions about how to do things. And I like also dealing with somebody who's like that.

I've had to make the transition from sweeping in for 15 minutes, doing my stuff and clearing out, to carrying a movie for the duration - in a dress.

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

There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem.

I've never been on a cruise.

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

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.

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

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

There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters; what happens to them is not lifelike.

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

I have a fine level of recognition in the business and among the acting community now, so I consider myself one of the lucky ones. If I didn't think that, there would be something wrong with me. I'm grateful and thankful for what I've got.

I know I wasn't as handsome as some other guys, but I was OK with that.

I've grown to really love musicals, you know?

I think you ultimately have to love who you're playing. You have to have that kind of feeling. You have to have passion for the person.

I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'