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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.
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 got into plays in high school then I ended up going to college for it.
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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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When you read, you think, and when you smoke, you think. It's a pleasurable thing, and not a duty.
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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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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've grown to really love musicals, you know?
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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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I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic.
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Creating anything is hard.
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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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[Truman Capote] was not only just selling his writing, but he was selling himself as a person.
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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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My soul is in good shape.
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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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Great talent admits shortcomings.
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There's things that you don't want to do and they keep haunting you and following you. Bennett Miller directed this project [Capote], who is a friend of mine since I was 16, and Danny Futterman wrote it, and he's also been a friend of mine since I was 16.
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I had a father who was a traveling salesman.
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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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