A biography for Philip Seymour Hoffmanhasn’t been written yet.
“The weight comes off, you know? If you stop with the bread and the pie, it really does. It really works.”
“There is no pleasure that I haven't made myself sick on.”
“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.”
“Actors are investigators.”
“I think you should be serious about what you do because this is it. This is the only life you've got.”
“I like to come to the set with very strong ideas and strong opinions about how to do things. And I like also dealing with somebody who's like that.”
“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.”
“Ultimately what I'll do next is up in the air for me.”
“I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.”
“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.”
“I've worked with a lot of characters that are unhinged. I've played characters that are unhinged. That's, like, my job.”
“I didn't really buy LPs or go to concerts.”
“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.”
“It's really hard to watch things and then not think about anything afterwards.”
“The foibles of my body are pretty much out there in the work I do.”
“The drama nerd comes out in me when I'm in a theater.”
“Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.”
“You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.”
“Creating anything is hard.”
“People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what I've done in movies can be.”