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
play things-to-do feels
Plays never feel like the right thing to do at the time.
play judging people
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.
thinking play people
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.
play people actors
Actors are responsible to the people we play.
teacher play acting
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.
play people lots-of-friends
I've seen a lot of friends who have a lot of great projects, whether it's a script or a play or whatever, and it is a great project and they have great people involved, and they can't make it.
running new-york play
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.
real character play
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.
men thinking play
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.
letting-go playing-someone burden
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.
men simple play
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.
play acting nervous
I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting.
school college play
I got into plays in high school then I ended up going to college for it.
I don't have a specific thing I want anyone to get out of anything I do.