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

The film is made in the editing room. The shooting of the film is about shopping, almost. It's like going to get all the ingredients together, and you've got to make sure before you leave the store that you got all the ingredients. And then you take those ingredients and you can make a good cake - or not.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Good You Together

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

Work Time Life

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

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Wit T Some

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Tin Thing Thin

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

Who Tackle T

Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Love Wit Well

I don't want to repeat myself.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Want T Self

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

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Up Then T

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

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Good Wit T

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

Movies Life Who

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

Relationship You Wit

I've never been on a cruise.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Never Ever Eve

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

Alone Up Tan

To be fair to my dad, he is one of the brightest men I've ever met.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Men Test T

Creating anything is hard.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Tin Thing Thin

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.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Wit Who Very

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

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Up Ultimately Ultimate

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

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Want Thing Thin

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

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Life You Unity

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

Philip Seymour Hoffman

You Why Ways

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

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

My soul is in good shape.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.

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

My girlfriend's a costume designer in the theater.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

Philip Seymour Hoffman

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.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Yeah, writers do hate writing.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

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.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

Good work is the only thing that would make me feel jealous or envious.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

There's nothing risky in talking about your personal life. People do it all the time.

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

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

Philip Seymour Hoffman

My ideal weight is 205, actually.

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

It's really hard to watch things and then not think about anything afterwards.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I think I'm less anonymous than I was.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

If I don't feel like I'm doing the job well, and I don't know how to get there, or I'm too scared, or whatever, I'm not a happy guy and I'm not pleasant. I'm not pleasant to be around.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

Philip Seymour Hoffman

In a film there a lot of people scheduling, you know.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

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.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I had a father who was a traveling salesman.

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

Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what I've done in movies can be.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

Philip Seymour Hoffman