Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes

I think being a parent is the most challenging thing you do. That's why we're here. It's at the heart of what it is to be a human being. It's the ultimate experience because it questions everything about who you are. But it's difficult.

Parenthood is so wild in its ability to put a mirror directly in your face and force you to look at yourself long and hard. What a challenge this is, but also what an exhilarating gift.

I'm coming to that realization that I'm going to be seen as a mom to someone, and it makes you think about your own parents. You know, who were they?

What does it feel like to be a parent? What does it feel like to be a child? And that's what stories do. They bring you there. They offer a dramatic explanation, which is always different from an expository explanation.

It's one of those things where people tell you that when you have kids it will change your perspective on life, and you're like, 'Yea, yea,' but then you really understand it when it happens to you.

Because I see my own boys growing, and I see other children growing and I just have such a connection.

It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.

Having children makes you see the world in a completely different way. When you're responsible for those little lives, you can't slough it off or forget about it until later.

Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.

Becoming a parent gives you access to a whole world of feeling. It gives you a much stronger sense of life and death: becoming a father made me realise my own mortality.

Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.

When I wrote 'Runaways,' I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I'm a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

There are illegitimate parents, but I don't believe there are any illegitimate children.

There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.

'Abel' is about the father I don't want to be and the boy I used to be.

For everybody in the world, the answers to the mysteries in your life usually lie in your childhood, your upbringing, and your parents.

Parenthood has made me more cautious.

Fatherhood is great.

Now that I'm a parent, I know that my parents were incredibly brave.

As anyone who is a father or mother out there can tell you, it's pretty amazing.

No adult can bear a child’s burden or grow up in his stead.

Children grow out of childhood, but parents never grow out of parenthood.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.