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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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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 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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If I was a little bit younger I would worry more. I'd want to do one thing at a time but now I try to do a bunch of different things at a time if I can.
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Actors are responsible to the people we play. I don't label or judge. I just play them as honestly and expressively and creatively as I can.
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Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.
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I know some really great actors who are pretty judgmental people, pretty critical people. But they're great actors. When they're acting, that's the craft.
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Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends.
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When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about.
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I've grown to really love musicals, you know?
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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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The foibles of my body are pretty much out there in the work I do.
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I've never been on a cruise.
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There's something in the very small minutia of life that tells us something about the big, big picture that we see every day all over the place, and so I think the more specific and creative and revelatory you are in the micro, the more powerful the macro will be.
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I have three children and I think I'm happy when I'm with them and they're okay. When I see them enjoying each other in front of me, and then they let me enjoy them in turn. That brings a feeling which I would say is happiness.
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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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I had a father who was a traveling salesman.
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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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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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There’s a period of time in your life when I kind of look back, and I’m like, was I happy, or was I just not aware?
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Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.
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