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I think I'm less anonymous than I was.
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 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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Learning how to die is therefore learning how to live.
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There's nothing risky in talking about your personal life. People do it all the time.
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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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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'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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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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Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.
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My mum's name is Marilyn O'Connor. She's here tonight and I would like if you see her for you to congratulate her because she brought up four kids alone and she deserves congratulations for that.
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The strange thing is I never thought I'd do films.
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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 think good art, if I could be pretentious enough to say, I think good art deals with the micro to explain the macro.
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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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Why you do something is always kind of a mystery to me.
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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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In film, you have to let go sometimes.
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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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Yeah, writers do hate writing.
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Creating something is all about problem-solving.
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