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.

People say, 'Where do you live?' and I say that theoretically, I live in London, but basically that's just where I go to change my suitcase. Otherwise, I'm always flying somewhere.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

I don't want to get into autobiographies; I don't want to talk about myself.