Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes

I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

What enables us to achieve our greatness contains the seeds of our destruction.

Success is sweet and treacherous.

Anytime you're pushing the envelope as hard as you can to be successful at anything at life it's easy to go from hero to zero in a second.

The most dangerous moment comes with victory.

When you reach that kind of successful pinnacle, it is the nature of the business and the press and everything that they go about tearing you down.

Nothing but disaster follows from applause.

An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.

If you're at the top, then brace for the fall.

Fifteen minutes of fame doesn't make a career. An article in a magazine, newspaper, interview on television or multiple print ads may stroke your ego, but nothing much else. An artist's career is a lifetime venture. Just because an artist is on top doesn't mean they are sheltered from a crash. As has been stated, the higher you climb, the harder you fall.

Everyone from the pope to some hobo thinks, "I'm a human being. What am I doing here?" You can't get carried away with fame and fortune and all that. It's all nonsense. The whole pop-star side of it is all fun and good, but you don't get anywhere without putting in the hours. I get so fulfilled when we play a song live that we spent hours working on. It's all cool. Fame is something to have fun with, but you shouldn't take it too seriously because it is bollocks.

If I win I can't be stopped! If I lose I shall be dead.

An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.

Those who the gods would make rich and famous on TV, they first drive mad.

I will be my undoing If I become my obsession.

All I want is to be more famous than anything or anyone.

Prosperity often presages adversity.

To people who want to be rich and famous, I'd say, "Get rich first and see if that doesn't cover it."

If you are going into show business for money and power, forget it! It won't happen. You don't go for that first.

In my life, I've been a movie star, a rock star, and a sports star, all wrapped up into one-and worked harder at it than anybody else.

Curiosity is its own suicide.

The more honor, the more danger.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.