Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes

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

All over the world, young men and young women will always dream dreams.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

No one wants to be pretentious about what they do or take it seriously, because that is just weird.

I think you should be serious about what you do because this is it. This is the only life you've got.

To be loved, I think, is the thing that gets you up in the morning.

Creating anything is hard.

My image of Jesus is someone who is exciting...Were he alive today, he would be causing havoc!

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 something is all about problem-solving.

I think good art, if I could be pretentious enough to say, I think good art deals with the micro to explain the macro.

Actors are responsible to the people we play. I don't label or judge. I just play them as honestly and expressively and creatively as I can.

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

My soul is in good shape.

It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other.

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

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

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

Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love.

I always thought I'd be a New York theater actor, riding my bicycle to rehearsal. That was all I ever wanted.

I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.

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

I've never been on a cruise.

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.

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

In film, you have to let go sometimes.

Learning how to die is therefore learning how to live.

There’s a period of time in your life when I kind of look back, and I’m like, was I happy, or was I just not aware?

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.

I got sober when I was 22 years old.

To act well isn't an easy thing.

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

Yeah, writers do hate writing.

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.

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

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

I try to live my life in such a way that I don't have any regrets. That's probably why I work so much. I don't want to feel I missed something important.

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

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.

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.

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.

The film is made in the editing room.

Actors are responsible to the people we play.

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.

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

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.