82+ Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes On Death, Death And Dying And Acting

Philip Seymour Hoffman was an American actor, director, and producer. He was widely regarded as one of the best actors of his generation and was known for his versatility in both comedic and dramatic roles. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Capote in 2006. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Philip Seymour Hoffman on death, life, death and dying.

Top 10 Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes

1. All over the world, young men and young women will always dream dreams.
2. The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.
3. 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.
4. My image of Jesus is someone who is exciting...Were he alive today, he would be causing havoc!
5. 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.
6. I think good art, if I could be pretentious enough to say, I think good art deals with the micro to explain the macro.
7. Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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 Short Quotes

• There is no pleasure that I haven't actually made myself sick on.
• When you read, you think, and when you smoke, you think. It's a pleasurable thing, and not a duty.
• [Truman Capote] was not only just selling his writing, but he was selling himself as a person.
• Learning how to die is therefore learning how to live.
• You have all the influence you choose to have.
• The size of my head though is pretty abnormal.
• I didn't have any idea that I would be able to have a career in film.
• The strange thing is I never thought I'd do films.
• The film is made in the editing room.
• I feel like I made a little bit of difference.

Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes About Life

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

I'm probably more personal when I'm acting than at any other time. More open, more direct. Because it allows me to be something that I can't always feel comfortable with when I'm living my own life, you know? Because it's make-believe. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

Success isn't what makes you happy. It really isn't. Success is doing what makes you happy and doing good work and hopefully having a fruitful life. If I've felt like I've done good work, that makes me happy. The success part of it is all gravy. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

When you think about [Truman] Capote in the - was what he did exploitative of a person's life or exploitative of these murders? You look at our culture now, you look at celebrity and how it plays out in our culture now, and Capote was one of the great PR men of his time. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

I try to live my life in such a way that I don't have any regrets. That's probably why I work so much. I don't want to feel I missed something important. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

There’s a period of time in your life when I kind of look back, and I’m like, was I happy, or was I just not aware? — Philip Seymour Hoffman

Women are the life force we look at for their beauty. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

In life, do you ever really know if you're missing an opportunity? No, you really don't. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes About Love

Study, find all the good teachers and study with them, get involved in acting to act, not to be famous or for the money. Do plays. It's not worth it if you are just in it for the money. You have to love it. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

To be loved, I think, is the thing that gets you up in the morning. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

Sometimes it's hard to say no. Ultimately, if you stick to your guns, you have the career that you want. Don't get me wrong. I love a good payday and I'll do films for fun. But ultimately my main goal is to do good work. If it doesn't pay well, so be it. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes About Acting

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

If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

Acting's difficult for me because I think you have to be passionately involved in what you're doing. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

When you're acting, you're subjective; when you're a director, you're more objective.You're kind of watching from the outside and helping others, and therefore I learn my mistakes through others, and also my assets through others. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

If I'm directing actors, I learn about acting that way. If I'm acting, I learn about directing that way. Producing is just something that's come about because there's projects I find interesting that I would like to help get done. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

For me, acting is torturous, and it's torturous because you know it's a beautiful thing. I was young once, and I said, that's beautiful and I want that. Wanting it is easy, but trying to be great - well, that's absolutely torturous. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes About Work

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

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

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

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

Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes About People

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

Don't let people treat you like a cigarette, they only use you when they're bored and step on you when they're done. Be like drugs, let them die for you. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

Actors are responsible to the people we play. I don't label or judge. I just play them as honestly and expressively and creatively as I can. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

If all people are encouraged to actually see who they're coexisting with, or even if they're not coexisting with other people.It's like to look at the world you're in. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

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. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

Actors are responsible to the people we play. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

People aren't going to throw the kind of money at certain people that they used to. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

Philip Seymour Hoffman Famous Quotes And Sayings

A lot of people describe me as chubby, which seems so easy, so first-choice. Or stocky. Fair-skinned. Tow-headed. There are so many other choices. How about dense? I mean, I'm a thick kind of guy. But I'm never described in attractive ways. I'm waiting for somebody to say I'm at least cute. But nobody has. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

I don't know, I was young, I drank too much, you know, so I stopped. You know what I mean, it's not really complicated. I had no interest in drinking in moderation. And I still don't. Just because all that time's passed doesn't mean maybe it was just a phase. That's you know, that's who I am. — 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

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

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

I know that obviously, that if you want to get the story, if you want to get close to somebody, if you want to find out what is really the truth or what's really interesting, you have to create a trust between these two things, between the journalist and the subject. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

I think you gotta have an honesty and a humility about human nature and that it's not about you at the end of the day. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

My favorite thing about acting is being alone and going through the scripts and working on it and getting ideas and asking myself questions, looking outside myself for them and researching and getting to the bottom of something and being creative with it as an actor and how to express it in a creative fashion. That's my favorite part. And, the actual acting of it. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

With "Good Night, and Good Luck," I think it's kind of obvious what [Truman Capote]'s getting at there, and the importance of how it's playing out today, that is journalism doing, are the journalists doing their job, are they being the other checks and balances in our country that the way that obviously Edward R. Murrow was back then. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

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

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

I was probably finding my feet more than anybody. I really have to say I was more obsessed with myself faltering than anybody else. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

Acting is so difficult for me that, unless the work is of a certain stature in my mind, unless I reach the expectations I have of myself, I'm unhappy. Then it's a miserable existence. I'm putting a piece of myself out there. If it doesn't do anything, I feel so ashamed. I'm afraid I'll be the kind of actor who thought he would make a difference and didn't. Right now, though, I feel like I made a little bit of difference. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

I always thought I'd be a New York theater actor, riding my bicycle to rehearsal. That was all I ever wanted. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

There's things that you don't want to do and they keep haunting you and following you. Bennett Miller directed this project [Capote], who is a friend of mine since I was 16, and Danny Futterman wrote it, and he's also been a friend of mine since I was 16. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

I feel like the need to want to create and make something is stronger than the difficulties are going through. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

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

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

When you see the carrot at the end of the stick, what do you do to get it? These kinds of things that come up, that come up in the story of Capote writing "In Cold Blood," and when you see the movie, you'll see what I'm talking about. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

You have to have a personal connection. You have to really want to do it, because if you don't, investing yourself personally, your thoughts, your emotions, yourself into a part, is something you're not going to want to do as much. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

A self-awareness moment. All of a sudden everything he has done comes flashing into his mind, a self-criticism that is unbearable. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

My mum's name is Marilyn O'Connor. She's here tonight and I would like if you see her for you to congratulate her because she brought up four kids alone and she deserves congratulations for that. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

Great talent admits shortcomings. — 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 think I would have drank myself to death, literally, if I didn't just stop, once and for all when I did. I am not ever going to preach to anyone about drugs or drinking. But, for me, when they were around, I had no self control. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

Something that could bring you wealth and fame could also be your end, your undoing. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

Life Lessons by Philip Seymour Hoffman

1. Philip Seymour Hoffman taught us to never give up on our dreams, no matter how hard it may seem. He worked hard to become one of the most acclaimed actors of his generation, and his dedication and commitment to his craft should serve as an inspiration to us all.
2. Philip Seymour Hoffman also showed us that it is possible to lead a balanced life, even when you are a successful actor. He was a devoted father and husband, and he managed to maintain a healthy work-life balance while still achieving success in his career.
3. Lastly, Philip Seymour Hoffman taught us to always be humble and kind. He was known for his generosity and humility, and he was always willing to help others in need. This is a lesson that we should all strive to