Philip Seymour Hoffman
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Philip Seymour Hoffmanwas an American actor, director, and producer of film and theater. Best known for his distinctive supporting and character roles Hoffman was a regular presence in films from the early 1990s until his death at age 46...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth23 July 1967
CityFairport, NY
CountryUnited States of America
creative actors use
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.
practice acting stage-actors
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.
interesting acting actors
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.
play people actors
Actors are responsible to the people we play.
matter stuff actors
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.
new-york actors rehearsal
I always thought I'd be a New York theater actor, riding my bicycle to rehearsal. That was all I ever wanted.
people acting actors
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.
support important actors
It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other.
beautiful empathy actors
I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'
careers acting actors
You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.
together groups actors
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.
movie clearing-out actors
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.
I don't have a specific thing I want anyone to get out of anything I do.
affect kids move people supposed vision work
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.