Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes

If you do not take advantage of your chances, you can pay for it.

If you don't take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it?

The trouble with opportunity is, it never announces when it comes. It's only after it's gone, you'd realize that you missed it.

If I could walk into the 'Friends' audition again and go or not go, I have to say it's 50-50.

Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.

Some of our important choices have a time line. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone forever. Sometimes our doubts keep us from making a choice that involves change. Thus an opportunity may be missed.

Opportunity knocks only once. You never know if you'll get another opportunity.

Usually you regret the things you say no to.

I don't know if I would do this if I had to start over again.

Sometimes you get to a place in life where you feel you've made some choices, and maybe they weren't the right choices, and that it's all coming to an end.

Usually, when you make a decision in life, unless you have access to parallel universes, you can't truly judge how right that decision was.

I'm at this time in life when I have to take the opportunities I have left.

When I was in college, I was debating to try my hand at show business, or to become a professor. I just thought of the risk of not going into show business and always wondering if I would've had a chance. Because that's where my real heart was.

The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don't take them, the universe says to itself, 'Oh I see, this person doesn't like opportunities' and stops giving them to you.

If I was starting off now, I would probably have taken one or two different turnings along the way.

It's very easy to make certain decisions that affect your life that you have no perspective on.

The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have studied English literature. I had a knack for that. But I don't think you have the kind of wisdom at 16 to make that decision.

I knew if I had gone to school - if I had gone to Juilliard and danced for four years - I would have spent every day wondering what would have happened if I had gone to Los Angeles instead.

I think people have all faced decisions at times where you never know.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.

Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.

I will not look back and say, 'I should have played in England.'