Philip Seymour Hoffman

I think I'm less anonymous than I was.

The weight comes off, you know? If you stop with the bread and the pie, it really does. It really works.

I've never been on a cruise.

I didn't really buy LPs or go to concerts.

I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.

I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.

My girlfriend's a costume designer in the theater.

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

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.

Creating anything is hard.

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

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

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

Actors are responsible to the people we play.

The size of my head though is pretty abnormal.

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

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

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.

I didn't have any idea that I would be able to have a career in film.