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When people don't know who you are, they're seeing your work for the first time. But if they've seen a lot, getting certain things across is a more difficult.

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

I got into plays in high school then I ended up going to college for it.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

People actually live with their id exposed. They're not good at concealing what's going on inside.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

The foibles of my body are pretty much out there in the work I do.

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

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

I had insecurities and fears like everybody does, and I got over it. But I was interested in the parts of me that struggled with those things.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

One person's religion is another person's cult.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

You can look at anything as a cult. Churches are cults in their own way.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

In film, you have to let go sometimes.

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've worked with a lot of characters that are unhinged. I've played characters that are unhinged. That's, like, my job.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.

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

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

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 got sober when I was 22 years old.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

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.

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

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

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

The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

My soul is in good shape.

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

Why you do something is always kind of a mystery to me.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I think you should be serious about what you do because this is it. This is the only life you've got.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I do understand what it is to not want to commit to someone, knowing that might bring pain or commit to a life that has to do with being responsible to people other than myself. These things, I think, are normal things.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Actors are responsible to the people we play.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about.

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

Yeah, writers do hate writing.

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