Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes

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

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.

Women are the life force we look at for their beauty.

I feel like the need to want to create and make something is stronger than the difficulties are going through.

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

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 would never not work on the part without it playing. That's what being an actor is. You use everything that's influenced you to help you get out of yourself or be more creative.

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.

There is no pleasure that I haven't made myself sick on.

I think part of why I have so many books around me and why I read every day is because I mythologize the writer. I don’t do that with any other artists.

Books … they’re kind of a compulsion for me. To find a great bookstore is a great thing.

Sometimes being an actor is like being some kind of detective where you're on the search for a secret that will unlock the character.