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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 like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.
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I always thought I'd be a New York theater actor, riding my bicycle to rehearsal. That was all I ever wanted.
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There's nothing risky in talking about your personal life. People do it all the time.
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A lot of people describe me as chubby, which seems so easy, so first-choice. Or stocky. Fair-skinned. Tow-headed. There are so many other choices. How about dense? I mean, I'm a thick kind of guy. But I'm never described in attractive ways. I'm waiting for somebody to say I'm at least cute. But nobody has.
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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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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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Why you do something is always kind of a mystery to me.
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I'm probably more personal when I'm acting than at any other time. More open, more direct. Because it allows me to be something that I can't always feel comfortable with when I'm living my own life, you know? Because it's make-believe.
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When you read, you think, and when you smoke, you think. It's a pleasurable thing, and not a duty.
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If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.
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Sometimes I take a temperature of things just because everyone else does. Especially when I'm doing a play. I want to know what people are thinking, positive or negative.
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I think you ultimately have to love who you're playing. You have to have that kind of feeling. You have to have passion for the person.
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I think you gotta have an honesty and a humility about human nature and that it's not about you at the end of the day.
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The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.
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