Quotes from Philip Seymour Hoffman

Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love.

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.

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

Yeah, writers do hate writing.

I've had to make the transition from sweeping in for 15 minutes, doing my stuff and clearing out, to carrying a movie for the duration - in a dress.

Actors are investigators.

No one wants to be pretentious about what they do or take it seriously, because that is just weird.

I've grown to really love musicals, you know?

I know some really great actors who are pretty judgmental people, pretty critical people. But they're great actors. When they're acting, that's the craft.

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.

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.

I got sober when I was 22 years old.

I know I wasn't as handsome as some other guys, but I was OK with that.

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

Sometimes I take a temperature of things just because everyone else does. Especially when I'm doing a play. I want to know what people are thinking, positive or negative.

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.

Ultimately what I'll do next is up in the air for me.

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

My mum is incredibly intelligent.

My soul is in good shape.

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

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.

All over the world, young men and young women will always dream dreams.

The drama nerd comes out in me when I'm in a theater.