#pi

Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#amazing #amazing thing #because #directing #helping

I like to come to the set with very strong ideas and strong opinions about how to do things. And I like also dealing with somebody who's like that. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#also #come #dealing #how #i

You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#air #body #circus #guy #head

Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#cultural #documentation #glorification #human #human spirit

Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully? ↗

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

#genius #most #pinions #real #simplicity

I basically taught myself how to sing and play by copying records, and that's just how it was for me. I know that's true for a lot of budding musicians out there - that's the thing that gets them inspired, is trying to learn their favorite songs. I think it's a great way to teach yourself. ↗

— Susanna Hoffs

#budding #copying #favorite #gets #great

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#creates #light #nature #picture

The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#art #astronomical #combination #complicated #concentration

A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood. ↗

— Austin O'Malley

#gallon #pint #save #sweat #will

It's tough because a lot of my friends in normal life, a lot of my friends in the entertainment business, and a lot of my friends in the wrestling business are gay. Just to say something spiteful and hurtful, I don't get it... if it was true and I was gay, I'd embrace it, and I'd tell you guys about it and I'd celebrate it. ↗

— Hulk Hogan

#because #business #celebrate #embrace #entertainment