I didn't go out looking for negative characters; I went out looking for people who have a struggle and a fight to tackle. That's what interests me.
Philip Seymour HoffmanYou 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 HoffmanThereโs a period of time in your life when I kind of look back, and Iโm like, was I happy, or was I just not aware?
Philip Seymour Hoffman