59 Quotes by Philip Hoffman

I can take it! When they came to my house to offer me the role I weighed 240 pounds or something. At the time, my girlfriend was pregnant and we were basically getting huge together.

I don't think Capote knew exactly what he was setting himself up for. He said later if he'd known what was going to happen, he would have driven right through the town like a bat out of hell.

I do a play because I want to do this play. Someone once said to me, 'How can you take yourself off the market?' ... I had no idea what he was talking about. This is what we do.

I began to see that this wasn't simply an odd man, an odd writer. What he discovered writing 'In Cold Blood' embodies what a lot of people go through. He struggled with who he was.

The guy was exhausting, ... Because every scene was different. He played every angle. He sat there, listening, but all the time thinking of what each person needed to make them open up. So there was never just one way to play each scene.