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People actually live with their id exposed. They're not good at concealing what's going on inside.
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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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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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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I think I'm less anonymous than I was.
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Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.
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Life is short. Time is short. As we get older, time does quicken. It's long, and it's long pertaining to that thought, that the past is not done with you because you can't rid of it.
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I've worked with a lot of characters that are unhinged. I've played characters that are unhinged. That's, like, my job.
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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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[Truman Capote] was not only just selling his writing, but he was selling himself as a person.
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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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Why you do something is always kind of a mystery to me.
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Plays never feel like the right thing to do at the time.
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Good work is the only thing that would make me feel jealous or envious.
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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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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 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 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 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 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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Great talent admits shortcomings.
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