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Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire.
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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I try to live my life in such a way that I don't have any regrets. That's probably why I work so much. I don't want to feel I missed something important.
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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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I got into plays in high school then I ended up going to college for it.
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I've grown to really love musicals, you know?
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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 don't know, I was young, I drank too much, you know, so I stopped. You know what I mean, it's not really complicated. I had no interest in drinking in moderation. And I still don't. Just because all that time's passed doesn't mean maybe it was just a phase. That's you know, that's who I am.
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I was probably finding my feet more than anybody. I really have to say I was more obsessed with myself faltering than anybody else.
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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 think you should be serious about what you do because this is it. This is the only life you've got.
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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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Good work is the only thing that would make me feel jealous or envious.
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Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that.
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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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