Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes

I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.

Life sometimes doesn't work out exactly as we plan or hope for.

Anyway, it fell through because they ran out of money. That was when I learned not to waste your time getting your hopes up or to believe something until it actually happens. We broke up for various reasons, but it was a good band. Jim and Don produced some magical music.

I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn't always work out.

Every time I try to plan something or assume that something's going to happen, it never works out like that.

Things don't always work out as you want them to.

Life doesn't always give us what we are expecting.

You think that your life is going to be one way, and then, for various reasons or whatever, it doesn't work out.

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.

My parents were ambitious people, my father especially, whose entire life was devoted to rising above, but his ambitions were defeated long before death finished them off, and so when he died, he came back to where he started, but he didn't come back home, because there was no home to come back to.

We always enter competitions to win but things don't always happen the way we want.

I always thought if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough, things would work out. I was wrong.

You want good ratings, you want people to like the show, you want to be appreciated for the hard work you put in. You don't always get it. Every show is not beloved.

It's a terrible thing to have to tell your fans, who have waited like Detroit's have, that their team won't win it this year. But it's better than lying to them.

The idea of having dreams that don't come true is really terrifying.

If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.

I've had a long line of failed television programs, pilots that were never picked up, series that didn't go very long. I've learned that there's really nothing you can do. If it's not in my control, I try not to worry about it.

I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?

It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.

I've done a lot of shows that didn't do well. You have to go in with a 50-50 take on it. If it goes well, fantastic. Hope for the best and plan for the worst.

My biggest loss was the Olympics. I just can't forget losing. I never will.

I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.

Life does not owe me a shred.

I had dreams, but I didn't have the sense that they would necessarily work out. They seemed very far-fetched.