Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes

I like when people know exactly, have a good sense of themselves, and know exactly what's good for them, I admire that, but I don't have anywhere near that kind of perspective on my own.

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.

I'm going to hang out with people, and I'm going to explore myself, and I'm okay with that.

I feel very ill-equipped to be giving anyone advice about their life.

There are times I felt insecure or not sure: I'm unsure of myself, or I get nervous, but nerves are good. I try and embrace all those things. I try and embrace the times where I'm not sure of myself or I'm like, 'Is this going to work? Is this going to land?'

I want to be a woman who has a little bit more figured out, who doesn't have so many doubts.

I think we all go through those moments of self-doubt.

Any little bit of experimenting in self-nurturance is very frightening for most of us.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.

A great epiphany: I found out that I'm totally confused and I'm good with that. I'm consistently inconsistent. I'm all of the above. I'm OK. I'm a work in progress. That's my next tattoo somewhere.

I worry that if I enjoy something - like the songs on 'Some Nights' are about wondering about who you are. I'm never quite sure and I'd hate to feel sort of content and get a good sense of who I am because if I know one thing, that's not me. I don't mind not necessarily being happy about it. And that's fine.

I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.

When you go through life, when you go through different things, you take risks, you question yourself. I think everybody does, at some point in their life, question themselves.

I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be.

If we fear the unknown then surely we fear ourselves.

I won't lie, I've had a lot of discouraging moments in the past years, moments I wasn't sure about things and doubted myself.

I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.

I'm on the path to being someone I'm equally terrified by and obsessed with. My true self.

Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.

A lot of people come to L.A. looking for something. What I came here for, I realize now, is to be okay with myself.

I am not an insecure person. For me, insecurity comes when something I do does not come across the way I thought it would. It would come if I had nothing more to say as an actor. I have a long way to go!