Philip Seymour Hoffman movie quotes

“- Cravely: You tell me to go fuck myself and I'm supposed to apologize. You break my window, I'm supposed to apologize?
- Gust Avrakotos: The Helsinki job was mine!
- Cravely: The Helsinki job was not yours. If it was yours, you'd be in Helsinki.”
John Slattery - Cravely
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Gust Avrakotos

“- Robert 'Rabbit' Nurick: God, Meg, you've got a lot of beef. Where did you get all this beef?
- Meg Greene: Did you see my cows out front?
- Robert 'Rabbit' Nurick: No.
- Meg Greene: Oh!
- Dusty: You slaughter your own cows, Meg, nice.”

Alan Ruck - Robert 'Rabbit' Nurick
Lois Smith - Meg Greene
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Dustin Davis

“- Rusty: Let me guess, a Jehovah's Witness?
- Walt Koontz: I was wondering, uh, if I could pay you for singing lessons?
- Rusty: Oh hahaha, oh, honey, I'd rather suck Hitler's dead dick.
- Walt Koontz: I bet you already did!”
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Rusty
Robert De Niro - Walt Koontz

“I have 94 per cent recall of all conversation. I tested it myself.”
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Truman Capote

“Great art is about conflict and pain and guilt and longing and love disguised as sex, and sex disguised as love... and let's face it, you got a big head start.”
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Lester Bangs

“- Charlie Wilson: You mean to tell me that the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan is to have the Afghans keep walking into machine gun fire 'til the Russians run out of bullets?
- Gust Avrakotos: That's Harold Holt's strategy, it's not U.S. strategy.
- Charlie Wilson: What is U.S. strategy?
- Gust Avrakotos: Well, strictly speaking, we don't have one....” (continue)(continue reading)
Tom Hanks - Charlie Wilson
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Gust Avrakotos

“He's a sexy guy. He's sexy. He's sexually active in his community...”
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Sandy Lyle

“- Walt Koontz: How can a man cut off his balls, how do you do that?
- Rusty: Because, I'm a woman trapped in a man's body.
- Walt Koontz: Eh, you're ain't no woman.
- Rusty: I'm just not your idea of a woman, Walt.
- Walt Koontz: You're nobody's idea of a woman.”
Robert De Niro - Walt Koontz
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Rusty

“Life's a bitch, so I became one, honey!”
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Rusty

“- Gust Avrakotos: What the fuck are you talking about?
- Cravely: Clair George said you were coming in here to apologize.
- Gust Avrakotos: I'm supposed to come in here so you could apologize to me.
- Cravely: According to whom?
- Gust Avrakotos: Clair George.”
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Gust Avrakotos
John Slattery - Cravely

“It's the hardest when someone has a notion about you and it's impossible to convince them otherwise.”
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Truman Capote

“Sometimes when I think of how good my book is going to be, I can't breathe.”
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Truman Capote

“- Freddie Miles: Don't you want to fuck every woman you see just once?
- Dickie Greenleaf: Just once?”
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Freddie Miles
Jude Law - Dickie Greenleaf

“Poor me, poor me, pour me another.”

Philip Seymour Hoffman - Rusty

“The Doors? Jim Morrison? He's a drunken buffoon posing as a poet.”
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Lester Bangs

“- Truman Capote: There wasn't anything I could have done to save them.
- Nelle Harper Lee: Maybe not. But the fact is, you didn't want to.”
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Truman Capote
Catherine Keener - Nelle Harper Lee

“- Patch Adams: Hi. Patch Adams.
- Mitch: Mitch Roman. Georgetown University. I was awarded the William F. Thompson Scientific Achievement Award.
- Patch Adams: Mmm. Emerson Elementary. I once drew a picture of a rabbit that got me two gold stars.”
Robin Williams - Patch Adams
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Mitch

“For 24 years people have been trying to kill me. People who know how. Now, do you think that's because my dad was a Greek soda pop maker? Or do you think it's because I'm an American spy?”

Philip Seymour Hoffman - Gust Avrakotos

“As long as the press sees sex and drugs behind the left hand, you can park a battle carrier behind the right hand and no one's gonna fucking notice.”
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Gust Avrakotos

“- Rusty: I'm an artist, you know?
- Walt Koontz: Bullshit. You're a fucking drag queen.
- Rusty: Let me savour those lovely words for a moment. What are you, channeling Jesse Helms?
- Walt Koontz: Don't be so sensitive. You can take a dick, you can take an insult.”
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Rusty
Robert De Niro - Walt Koontz

“- Walt Price: And we're going to sue you for a billion dollars.
- Joseph Turner White: What cause?
- Walt Price: I don't need a cause, I just need a lawyer!”
William H. Macy - Walt Price
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Joseph Turner White

“There's only one thing I value and that's loyalty. And without it, you're nothing.”
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Paul Zara

“I've spent the past three years... learning Finnish! Which would come in handy here in Virginia, and I'm never ever sick at sea. So I wanna know why... I'm not gonna be your Helsinki station chief.”

Philip Seymour Hoffman - Gust Avrakotos

“Music, you now, true music - not just rock n roll - it chooses you. It live in your car, or alone listening to your headphones, you know, with the cast scenic bridges and angelic choirs in your brain. It's a place apart from the vast, benign lap of America.”
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Lester Bangs

“- Mitch: I don't mean to be rude, but aren't you a little old to be starting medical school?
- Patch Adams: You know, Babe Ruth was 39 when he joined the Yankees.
- Mitch: No, he wasn't!
- Patch Adams: I know. If you have a better example, please tell me.”
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Mitch
Robin Williams - Patch Adams