Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes - Page 4

Actors are responsible to the people we play.

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.

I got sober when I was 22 years old.

In film, you have to let go sometimes.

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

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.

My mother's a staunch feminist, so I grew up with very strong feminist messages. As a result, I battled her in my teenage years because my image of being a man was a deformed one.

Yeah, writers do hate writing.

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.

I know that obviously, that if you want to get the story, if you want to get close to somebody, if you want to find out what is really the truth or what's really interesting, you have to create a trust between these two things, between the journalist and the subject.

Acting's difficult for me because I think you have to be passionately involved in what you're doing.

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

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

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 to look at the world you're in.

I was probably finding my feet more than anybody. I really have to say I was more obsessed with myself faltering than anybody else.

You have to have a personal connection. You have to really want to do it, because if you don't, investing yourself personally, your thoughts, your emotions, yourself into a part, is something you're not going to want to do as much.

When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate.

When you're acting, you're subjective; when you're a director, you're more objective.You're kind of watching from the outside and helping others, and therefore I learn my mistakes through others, and also my assets through others.

There's things that you don't want to do and they keep haunting you and following you. Bennett Miller directed this project [Capote], who is a friend of mine since I was 16, and Danny Futterman wrote it, and he's also been a friend of mine since I was 16.

I have three children and I think I'm happy when I'm with them and they're okay. When I see them enjoying each other in front of me, and then they let me enjoy them in turn. That brings a feeling which I would say is happiness.

Being with a kid always takes you to being a kid somehow, and they really are showing me a childhood I might not have had in some way.

I had a father who was a traveling salesman.

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

Sometimes I take a temperature of things just because everyone else does. Especially when I'm doing a play. I want to know what people are thinking, positive or negative.

A self-awareness moment. All of a sudden everything he has done comes flashing into his mind, a self-criticism that is unbearable.