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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.
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 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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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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When you read, you think, and when you smoke, you think. It's a pleasurable thing, and not a duty.
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I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.
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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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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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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 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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Ultimately, I think writing is a mixture of craft, inspiration, and being incredibly, courageously explorative with yourself - and being brutally honest, too.
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The strange thing is I never thought I'd do films.
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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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Plays never feel like the right thing to do at the time.
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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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I think you gotta have an honesty and a humility about human nature and that it's not about you at the end of the day.
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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 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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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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I feel like I made a little bit of difference.
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Great talent admits shortcomings.
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