Philip Seymour Hoffman Twister Quotes

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

My favorite thing about acting is being alone and going through the scripts and working on it and getting ideas and asking myself questions, looking outside myself for them and researching and getting to the bottom of something and being creative with it as an actor and how to express it in a creative fashion. That's my favorite part. And, the actual acting of it. ~ Philip Seymour Hoffman

I do feel like all the people I meet, all the people I'm in discussions with, if I'm working with somebody, I sense the same energy that everybody is suffering from the same predicament. ~ Philip Seymour Hoffman

Sometimes I'm uncomfortable with the level of fame I've got! It all depends on the day and what's going on. I don't desire any more fame. I don't need it. ~ Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft. ~ Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

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

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. ~ Philip Seymour Hoffman

Why you do something is always kind of a mystery to me. ~ Philip Seymour Hoffman

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. ~ 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

The drama nerd comes out in me when I'm in a theater. ~ Philip Seymour Hoffman

I would definitely say pleasure is not happiness. Because I think I kill pleasure. Like I take too much of it in, and therefore make it un-pleasurable, like too much coffee, and you're miserable. ~ Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

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. ~ Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

My mum's name is Marilyn O'Connor. She's here tonight and I would like if you see her for you to congratulate her because she brought up four kids alone and she deserves congratulations for that. ~ Philip Seymour Hoffman

Don't let people treat you like a cigarette, they only use you when they're bored and step on you when they're done. Be like drugs, let them die for you. ~ Philip Seymour Hoffman

When you read, you think, and when you smoke, you think. It's a pleasurable thing, and not a duty. ~ Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

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

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. ~ Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

In order for something to be born, something has to die.That's not always, but there is something about that that I find to be true. That is, it's a natural thing. ~ Philip Seymour Hoffman

One person's religion is another person's cult. ~ Philip Seymour Hoffman

The movie truism is that stars play themselves, while actors play other people - troubled or toxic, and memorably strange. By that definition, Philip Seymour Hoffman, who disappeared into the rabbit hole of his characters' souls, was our generation's anti-star and the chameleonic film actor of his age. ~ Richard Corliss

I love 'Capote.' Huge fan of Philip Seymour Hoffman; if he's not my all-time favorite actor he's definitely in my top five. I just love him so much. ~ Chris Pratt

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. ~ Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic. ~ Philip Seymour Hoffman

I have an awful memory, and I have a great memory. Meaning that, if I'm trying to remember something, I can't remember it. But my recall is fantastic. ~ Philip Seymour Hoffman

Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that. ~ Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

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. ~ Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love. ~ Philip Seymour Hoffman

To have that concentration to act well is like lugging things up staircases in your brain. I think that's a thing people don't understand. It is that exhausting. If you're doing it well, if you're concentrating the way you need to, if your will and your concentration and emotional and imagination and emotional life are all in tune, concentrated and working together in that role, that is just like lugging weights upstairs with your head ... And I don't think that should get any easier. ~ Philip Seymour Hoffman