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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.
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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Film Actor
Film Director
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Fairport
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Philip Hoffman
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When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.
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People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what I've done in movies can be.
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Sometimes I'm uncomfortable with the level of fame I've got! It all depends on the day and what's going on. I don't desire any more fame. I don't need 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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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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For me, acting is torturous, and it's torturous because you know it's a beautiful thing. I was young once, and I said, that's beautiful and I want that. Wanting it is easy, but trying to be great - well, that's absolutely torturous.
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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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If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.
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The foibles of my body are pretty much out there in the work I do.
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Creating anything is hard.
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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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Women are the life force we look at for their beauty.
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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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In life, do you ever really know if you're missing an opportunity? No, you really don't.
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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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