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.

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

It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other.

I just had an idea that went right over my head.

I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!