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Learning how to die is therefore learning how to live.
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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Philip Hoffman
Phil Hoffman
Dies
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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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When you read, you think, and when you smoke, you think. It's a pleasurable thing, and not a duty.
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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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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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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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We really enjoy that, having a relationship with writers, developing material and getting a director, actors, that we have kind of that family kind of as a group we're going to do it together mentality in a project. Then the tough part is - so what actually goes has very little to do with us sometimes.
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I was probably finding my feet more than anybody. I really have to say I was more obsessed with myself faltering than anybody else.
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Bob Glaudini, the writer, he's a wonderfully talented man and all his plays and his screenplays, they all have sense of something bigger, even though you're looking at something very simple.
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In order for something to be born, something has to die.That's not always, but there is something about that that I find to be true. That is, it's a natural thing.
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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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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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When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about.
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To act well isn't an easy thing.
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My girlfriend's a costume designer in the theater.
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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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You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.
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People actually live with their id exposed. They're not good at concealing what's going on inside.
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When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate.
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Sometimes I take a temperature of things just because everyone else does. Especially when I'm doing a play. I want to know what people are thinking, positive or negative.
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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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