Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes
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Ultimately, I think writing is a mixture of craft, inspiration, and being incredibly, courageously explorative with yourself - and being brutally honest, too.
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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.
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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.
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Acting's difficult for me because I think you have to be passionately involved in what you're doing.
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I think good art, if I could be pretentious enough to say, I think good art deals with the micro to explain the macro.
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No one wants to be pretentious about what they do or take it seriously, because that is just weird.
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It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other.
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I've worked with a lot of characters that are unhinged. I've played characters that are unhinged. That's, like, my job.
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To be loved, I think, is the thing that gets you up in the morning.
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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?
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You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.
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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.
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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.
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In film, you have to let go sometimes.
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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.
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Why you do something is always kind of a mystery to me.
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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.
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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.
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[Truman Capote] was not only just selling his writing, but he was selling himself as a person.
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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.
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I think I would have drank myself to death, literally, if I didn't just stop, once and for all when I did. I am not ever going to preach to anyone about drugs or drinking. But, for me, when they were around, I had no self control.
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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.
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The weight comes off, you know? If you stop with the bread and the pie, it really does. It really works.
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The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.
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Actors are responsible to the people we play.
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Something that could bring you wealth and fame could also be your end, your undoing.
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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.
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For me, acting is torturous, and it's torturous because you know it's a beautiful thing. I was young once, and I said, that's beautiful and I want that. Wanting it is easy, but trying to be great - well, that's absolutely torturous.
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Acting is so difficult for me that, unless the work is of a certain stature in my mind, unless I reach the expectations I have of myself, I'm unhappy. Then it's a miserable existence. I'm putting a piece of myself out there. If it doesn't do anything, I feel so ashamed. I'm afraid I'll be the kind of actor who thought he would make a difference and didn't. Right now, though, I feel like I made a little bit of difference.
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There's something in the very small minutia of life that tells us something about the big, big picture that we see every day all over the place, and so I think the more specific and creative and revelatory you are in the micro, the more powerful the macro will be.
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