Philip Seymour Hoffman

When people don't know who you are, they're seeing your work for the first time. But if they've seen a lot, getting certain things across is a more difficult.

I didn't have any idea that I would be able to have a career in film.

No one wants to be pretentious about what they do or take it seriously, because that is just weird.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'