Thereโs 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 HoffmanI would never not work on the part without it playing. That's what being an actor is. You use everything that's influenced you to help you get out of yourself or be more creative.
Philip Seymour HoffmanI was a breed of people who aren't capable of doing anything, really. At college I began to get the idea that being macho wasn't the accepted norm in the liberal world, and especially the world I entered into, which was the artistic world. I had a lot of problems with that because I was struggling with the need to be proud of being a man, which wasn't something I was feeling.
Philip Seymour HoffmanSometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends.
Philip Seymour Hoffman