Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly.
– Philip Seymour Hoffman
I didn't have any idea that I would be able to have a career in film.
– Philip Seymour Hoffman
I have a fine level of recognition in the business and among the acting community now, so I consider myself one of the lucky ones. If I didn't think that, there would be something wrong with me. I'm grateful and thankful for what I've got.
– Philip Seymour Hoffman
I think I'm like any actor, most actors it's kind of inbred in you that you're never going to work again even if you are working a lot.
– Philip Seymour Hoffman
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.
– Philip Seymour Hoffman
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.
– Philip Seymour Hoffman
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.
– Philip Seymour Hoffman
People actually live with their id exposed. They're not good at concealing what's going on inside.
– Philip Seymour Hoffman
Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends.
– Philip Seymour Hoffman
Sometimes I'm uncomfortable with the level of fame I've got! It all depends on the day and what's going on. I don't desire any more fame. I don't need it.
– Philip Seymour Hoffman
The foibles of my body are pretty much out there in the work I do.
– Philip Seymour Hoffman
The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.
– Philip Seymour Hoffman
The size of my head though is pretty abnormal.
– Philip Seymour Hoffman
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.
– Philip Seymour Hoffman
There's also the fickleness of the business and the fickleness of this country. It's like everyone loves people to go down and go up again, and then go down again. It's the way the business stays afloat, in a weird way.
– Philip Seymour Hoffman
You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.
– Philip Seymour Hoffman
To be fair to my dad, he is one of the brightest men I've ever met.
– Philip Seymour Hoffman
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.
– Philip Seymour Hoffman
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.
– Philip Seymour Hoffman
People aren't going to throw the kind of money at certain people that they used to.
– Philip Seymour Hoffman
One person's religion is another person's cult.
– Philip Seymour Hoffman
Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.
– Philip Seymour Hoffman
It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other.
– Philip Seymour Hoffman
I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.
– Philip Seymour Hoffman
I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.
– Philip Seymour Hoffman
I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'
– Philip Seymour Hoffman
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.
– Philip Seymour Hoffman
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.