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.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

I think for any actor, for the roles they deeply, truly want? They always have to audition for them.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.