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 have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.