Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes About Acting

Quotes about: 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.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Teacher, Play, Acting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• I'm probably more personal when I'm acting than at any other time. More open, more direct. Because it allows me to be something that I can't always feel comfortable with when I'm living my own life, you know? Because it's make-believe.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Believe, Acting, Feels

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• For me, acting is torturous, and it's torturous because you know it's a beautiful thing. I was young once, and I said, that's beautiful and I want that. Wanting it is easy, but trying to be great - well, that's absolutely torturous.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Beautiful, Trying, Acting

  "A Higher Calling" by Lynn Hirschberg, www.nytimes.com. December 19, 2008.

• My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Priorities, Acting, Way

• You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Air, Spinning Plates, Guy

• 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.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  People, Acting, Actors

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. September 15, 2010.

• Acting is so difficult for me that, unless the work is of a certain stature in my mind, unless I reach the expectations I have of myself, I'm unhappy. Then it's a miserable existence. I'm putting a piece of myself out there. If it doesn't do anything, I feel so ashamed. I'm afraid I'll be the kind of actor who thought he would make a difference and didn't. Right now, though, I feel like I made a little bit of difference.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Differences, Expectations, Mind

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Play, Acting, Nervous

  "A Higher Calling" by Lynn Hirschberg, www.nytimes.com. December 19, 2008.

• You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Careers, Acting, Actors

  "Philip Seymour Hoffman Interview - DOUBT". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 21, 2008.

• I have a fine level of recognition in the business and among the acting community now, so I consider myself one of the lucky ones. If I didn't think that, there would be something wrong with me. I'm grateful and thankful for what I've got.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Grateful, Thinking, Community

• Acting's difficult for me because I think you have to be passionately involved in what you're doing.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Thinking, Acting, Difficult

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Interesting, Acting, Actors

  Source: www.pbs.org

• When you're acting, you're subjective; when you're a director, you're more objective.You're kind of watching from the outside and helping others, and therefore I learn my mistakes through others, and also my assets through others.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Mistake, Helping Others, Acting

  Source: www.pbs.org

• My favorite thing about acting is being alone and going through the scripts and working on it and getting ideas and asking myself questions, looking outside myself for them and researching and getting to the bottom of something and being creative with it as an actor and how to express it in a creative fashion. That's my favorite part. And, the actual acting of it.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Fashion, Ideas, Creative

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Practice, Acting, Stage Actors

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