Latest Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes from Interviews

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• Frankly, I get much more sensitive about what's written about me than how I look in a photo. I'm so used to people seeing my image in plays and films that what they think about how I look is none of my business. If they says, "Hey, he doesn't look good," I'm like, Whatever, because I know I look different from day to day. But if you're up there putting your heart into something and people reject your performance, that's very painful. The written word can kick your ass.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Heart, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I've been reading a bunch of stuff lately - like Joseph Campbell - that has made me realize that people in our cultural, especially in the liberal community, often go in search of a foe. It's like we always need a hill to climb up or something to push against, or we feel as if we're not working constructively in the world.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Reading, People, Community

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I was a breed of people who aren't capable of doing anything, really. At college I began to get the idea that being macho wasn't the accepted norm in the liberal world, and especially the world I entered into, which was the artistic world. I had a lot of problems with that because I was struggling with the need to be proud of being a man, which wasn't something I was feeling.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Struggle, College, Men

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Strong, Teenage, Men

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I always knew where I needed to go but I sometimes had a problem getting there, so I had to work harder at it. Once in a while I'd wanna take off the blouse and heels because I'd get that "I just wanna be a guy" feeling I had when growing up.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Growing Up, Hard Work, Guy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Something that could bring you wealth and fame could also be your end, your undoing.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Wealth, Fame

  Source: www.slate.com

• Ultimately, all characters have some negative and positive energies. That's just how I see it. 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.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Struggle, Character, Fighting

  Source: www.slate.com

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

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Burden

  Source: www.slate.com

• Life is short. Time is short. As we get older, time does quicken. It's long, and it's long pertaining to that thought, that the past is not done with you because you can't rid of it.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Life Is Short, Past, Done With You

  Source: blankonblank.org

• I have three children and I think I'm happy when I'm with them and they're okay. When I see them enjoying each other in front of me, and then they let me enjoy them in turn. That brings a feeling which I would say is happiness.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Children, Thinking, Feelings

  Source: blankonblank.org

• 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.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Kids, Childhood, Might

  Source: blankonblank.org

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

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Sick, Pleasure, Made

  Source: blankonblank.org

• I would definitely say pleasure is not happiness. Because I think I kill pleasure. Like I take too much of it in, and therefore make it un-pleasurable, like too much coffee, and you're miserable.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Coffee, Thinking, Too Much

  Source: blankonblank.org

• Ultimately, I think writing is a mixture of craft, inspiration, and being incredibly, courageously explorative with yourself - and being brutally honest, too.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Inspiration, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Ryan Bartelmay, believermag.com. May 15, 2018.

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

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Thinking, Duty, Smoke

  Interview with Ryan Bartelmay, believermag.com. May 15, 2018.

• I have an awful memory, and I have a great memory. Meaning that, if I'm trying to remember something, I can't remember it. But my recall is fantastic.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Memories, Trying, Awful

  Interview with Ryan Bartelmay, believermag.com. May 15, 2018.

• 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.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Creative, Use, Actors

  Interview with Ryan Bartelmay, believermag.com. May 15, 2018.

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

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Stronger, Needs, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  People, Suffering, Energy

  Source: www.pbs.org

• We really enjoy that, having a relationship with writers, developing material and getting a director, actors, that we have kind of that family kind of as a group we're going to do it together mentality in a project. Then the tough part is - so what actually goes has very little to do with us sometimes.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Together, Directors, Groups

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Bob Glaudini, the writer, he's a wonderfully talented man and all his plays and his screenplays, they all have sense of something bigger, even though you're looking at something very simple.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Simple, Men, Play

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I think good art, if I could be pretentious enough to say, I think good art deals with the micro to explain the macro.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Art, Thinking, Enough

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Powerful, Thinking, Creative

  Source: www.pbs.org

• In order for something to be born, something has to die.That's not always, but there is something about that that I find to be true. That is, it's a natural thing.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Order, Natural, Born

  Source: www.pbs.org