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Creating anything is hard.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
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Philip Seymour Hoffman
Age: 46 †
Born: 1967
Born: July 23
Died: 2014
Died: February 2
Actor
Character Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Theatrical Director
Voice Actor
Fairport
New York
Philip Hoffman
Phil Hoffman
Creating
Anything
Hard
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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 directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.
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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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