Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes

One of the joys about acting is researching.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

I'm an actor and my job is to interpret.

The whole business of being an actor is to explore, from research to shooting to why you do it. You're trying to see why people do what they do and how it feels to do what they do.

As an actor, there are so many different people to hide behind.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

One of the great joys of being an actor is you get to go back to school.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

As an actor all we want to do is act and play people.

I don't honestly think people know what acting is.

There are a thousand ways to play any role.

What I find most interesting about acting is transforming myself.

Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

I'm an actor. I love to create.

I'm really excited, because the character, Jules, is a really awesome character. I'm really excited to be playing her, and overall, I'm really excited to be getting back to my acting roots.

A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.

Acting, to me, is being given the freedom and ability to play, and that's - that's what I love most about it. I feel very comfortable in playing, whether it be in front of a camera or on stage.

The whole point about becoming an actor is variety and changing roles.

One of my favorite parts of being an actress is being a detective.

Actors are observers of human life, of human behavior.

I think acting is a work of imagination.