Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes

Being fired from a show - being fired in any way, in any instance, any business - is just hard.

Getting fired was always a big deal to me. It's a bit like having someone break up with you.

To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.'

It's 90 percent rejection, being an actor.

When you're fired, you're rejected. It's as simple as that.

As an actress, there were so many months, years even, when I didn't get work, when I wanted to quit.

It's definitely a tough blow to your morale to get fired.

Being out of work for 13 to 15 years is no walk in the park.

It's not an easy thing to be let go.

I was bartending for a long time and going on auditions and was constantly being rebuffed.

So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle rejection.

From the time I was 16 to really up until turning 21, the roles were really, really few and far between. I had people say that I just wasn't a good singer. They didn't know what to do with me; I would never fit in any markets. I almost quit acting altogether.

I've had way more rejections than I've had jobs.

My 20s were a blizzard of rejection slips.

My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.

My first ten years in Hollywood were really tough. I'd be coaching friends who came to me for acting advice, and then they'd make it before I did. I'd still be helping them while they were on movie sets and I had four lines on a TV show.

After school, I got a job in a shop in Hollywood and shared an apartment with a friend. I promptly lost my job and got evicted from my apartment, and that happened several times.

I was fired as an actor on 'Bosch.'

After my debut in 2001 in 'Aks,' where I had a small part, I had to work really hard to get work in the industry. For almost three years, I had no work.

I was probably scarred by getting the sack at Middlesbrough.

I had given up on acting because I would go for auditions every day, but nothing would happen.

It was not even that long ago when my acting career was in the gutter. I was just thinking that I didn't want to live a life still going on auditions and not getting work. I wasn't inspired or anything at the time, and it sucked.

My phone was not ringing very much at the time after USC, and that was a very humbling experience after being let go there and to go through that process. You start calling a lot of people that don't call you back all of a sudden, and you realize things about people.

The first eight years in Mumbai were specially tough. I knew during the first two months of my stay that there's no point waiting for hours to meet producers. They won't meet you and definitely won't give you a role.

I walked the streets of New York for two years begging for a job, and I couldn't get one.