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Yeah, writers do hate writing.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
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Philip Seymour Hoffman
Age: 46 †
Born: 1967
Born: July 23
Died: 2014
Died: February 2
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Film Actor
Film Director
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Philip Hoffman
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I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic.
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You have to have a personal connection. You have to really want to do it, because if you don't, investing yourself personally, your thoughts, your emotions, yourself into a part, is something you're not going to want to do as much.
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I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting.
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I always knew where I needed to go but I sometimes had a problem getting there, so I had to work harder at it. Once in a while I'd wanna take off the blouse and heels because I'd get that I just wanna be a guy feeling I had when growing up.
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Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.
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I didn't have any idea that I would be able to have a career in film.
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You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.
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When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.
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I would definitely say pleasure is not happiness. Because I think I kill pleasure. Like I take too much of it in, and therefore make it un-pleasurable, like too much coffee, and you're miserable.
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I got into plays in high school then I ended up going to college for it.
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If all people are encouraged to actually see who they're coexisting with, or even if they're not coexisting with other people.It's like to look at the world you're in.
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My girlfriend's a costume designer in the theater.
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People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what I've done in movies can be.
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I think good art, if I could be pretentious enough to say, I think good art deals with the micro to explain the macro.
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When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate.
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I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'
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I've grown to really love musicals, you know?
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In film, you have to let go sometimes.
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In life, do you ever really know if you're missing an opportunity? No, you really don't.
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I had a father who was a traveling salesman.
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