Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes

When you're acting you put so much of yourself into working. As much fun as it is, it's still hard work and it's still a challenge.

Most actors are very deeply passionate about their line of work. I suppose there are probably people who sell insurance policies that are passionate about it, but I'm thinking the ratio is a little higher for actors. But, I may be wrong.

After you do a play like 'The Normal Heart,' it's hard to find something you feel so passionate about.

All I can say is if the part doesn't delight me in some way, or I can't feel any compassion for it, I just can't do it.

Whether it be in acting, music, or even in dancing, I only want to do things that I truly connect to, and with my music, it's everything that I am.

I love to act, and I try to be challenged by what I do.

I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.

I'm an actress. It's my passion. It's - I've always lived for acting.

I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.

I knew it would be hard work, but that's the reason you're an actor. If you're a bricklayer, you don't want to just show up at someone's house and put a little row of bricks around their garden. You want to build a building.

I get very involved in my roles. I want people to think it's all really happening. If I'm in it, I'm in it.

The theater has kept me alive, and it's allowed me to work at my craft.

My first love and my first instinct are acting.

Personally, I love music, as it's my first love, and if I ever act, it has to be something close to music. That's when I will feel great about doing it.

The films you do are not just for the audience. As an actor, you are putting your heart and soul into them.

Singing has been a passion of mine, equal to or greater than acting, ever since I was very small.

I get the greatest joy from just doing anything, being an actor. Doing music, and doing what I love to do. I don't make a huge distinction between comedy and drama. I think the whole point is just trying to be as honest, from moment to moment, as you can be. If you're honest about the material, and the material is ridiculous, then you're in a comedy.

Just giving the people a great show, leaving it all on the stage. Like when I'm finished I don't want to go home with nothing, I want to leave it all there on the stage, that's what I'm thinking about before I hit the stage.

Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.

If I was an actor, it would be like a part that was me. It has to be real to me. I have to make it mine. I really enjoy taking a song I feel that way about, and sometimes it can take a long time to come up with just the right touch. I think that's really my greatest talent, interpreting.

Creative work carries with it a form of intense love.

I wanna make music that I feel proud of when I'm onstage, that I feel like I put my all into.

It's so incredible when you meet somebody who comes up and passionately tells you how much they liked you in a movie, or how much they liked thamovie. That's a great thing, because I know what I get out of watching a great movie. So I love what I do, but it's more - I don't think there'd be anybody who would tell you that, even if it's something they love doing, they don't get stressed out by it. I'm a very intense person, so I go very intensely and passionately into what I do.

I'm too passionate about my work...Acting takes not only concentration, it takes creativity; it takes... your soul.

To me, the producing falls into the same as acting. It requires so much time out of your life, and I take it very personally, I realize. So if I do something, it just has to be something I love and I don't want anyone else to do. When I open projects, maybe something will appeal to me. I think I'm not opening them because I don't want anything to appeal to me right now.