Philip Seymour Hoffman

“My feelings are my agents. I send them out to find the facts.”

“The joy of being an actor is to play different people and to explore different areas of humanity.”

“I just try to be true to the character and the story.”

“The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its victims are all around us, and we are all of us, in some way, responsible.”

“I think the media has a tendency to believe what they want to believe.”

“The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.”

“If you're a human being, you can be redeemed.”

“I think you should be serious about what you do because this is it. This is the only life you've got.”

“You are not a machine. You are not a robot. You are a thing that is messy and alive and beautiful.”

“The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me.”

“Acting is a weird thing. You've gotta be in the moment... you've gotta be connected to your partner... you've gotta be connected to the audience.”

“You have to get to a place where you can lose yourself. That's a difficult thing to do.”

“I'm a character actor. I've always been a character actor.”

“I try to live my life in a way that I don't have any regrets. I'm not a person who dwells on the past.”

“There's a freedom to being an adult. You can do what you want.”