Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“The idea that you have a vision of what you're supposed to be, or going to be, or where your kids are going to be - and that that doesn't work out - is always going to be something that's going to affect people and move people.”

“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.”

“When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate. But it's one that you have to let go of ultimately.”

“The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.”

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

“I think you ultimately have to love who you're playing. You have to have that kind of feeling. You have to have passion for the person.”

“I think therapy is a helpful thing. I think everyone knows it. You do it for your life, you do it for yourself, because you want to explore some things, and get at the bottom of some things. It's about your life, the quality of your life.”

“I don't have a specific thing I want anyone to get out of anything I do.”

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

“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.”