Philip Seymour Hoffman
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Philip Seymour Hoffmanwas an American actor, director, and producer of film and theater. Best known for his distinctive supporting and character roles Hoffman was a regular presence in films from the early 1990s until his death at age 46...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth23 July 1967
CityFairport, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Philip Seymour Hoffman quotes about
ambition center-of-attention succeed
The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.
helping-others worry kind
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.
kind mystery
Why you do something is always kind of a mystery to me.
trying too-much plans
I try not to plan that too much.
weight ideals
My ideal weight is 205, actually.
want connections investing
You have to have a personal connection. You have to really want to do it, because if you don't, investing yourself personally, your thoughts, your emotions, yourself into a part, is something you're not going to want to do as much.
spinning-plates air guy
You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body.
careers acting actors
You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.
haunting want projects
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.
documentaries fiction kind
Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.
talent great-talent shortcomings
Great talent admits shortcomings.
strange film strange-things
The strange thing is I never thought I'd do films,
drinking mean who-i-am
I don't know, I was young, I drank too much, you know, so I stopped. You know what I mean, it's not really complicated. I had no interest in drinking in moderation. And I still don't. Just because all that time's passed doesn't mean maybe it was just a phase. That's you know, that's who I am.
differences expectations mind
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.