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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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[Truman Capote] was not only just selling his writing, but he was selling himself as a person.
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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 I would have drank myself to death, literally, if I didn't just stop, once and for all when I did. I am not ever going to preach to anyone about drugs or drinking. But, for me, when they were around, I had no self control.
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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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Learning how to die is therefore learning how to live.
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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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I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting.
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My mother's a staunch feminist, so I grew up with very strong feminist messages. As a result, I battled her in my teenage years because my image of being a man was a deformed one.
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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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The film is made in the editing room. The shooting of the film is about shopping, almost. It's like going to get all the ingredients together, and you've got to make sure before you leave the store that you got all the ingredients. And then you take those ingredients and you can make a good cake - or not.
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With Good Night, and Good Luck, I think it's kind of obvious what [Truman Capote]'s getting at there, and the importance of how it's playing out today, that is journalism doing, are the journalists doing their job, are they being the other checks and balances in our country that the way that obviously Edward R. Murrow was back then.
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Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.
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Good work is the only thing that would make me feel jealous or envious.
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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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The weight comes off, you know? If you stop with the bread and the pie, it really does. It really works.
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Women are the life force we look at for their beauty.
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Why you do something is always kind of a mystery to me.
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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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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.
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