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The strange thing is I never thought I'd do films.
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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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 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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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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Why you do something is always kind of a mystery to me.
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I think I'm less anonymous than I was.
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I have three children and I think I'm happy when I'm with them and they're okay. When I see them enjoying each other in front of me, and then they let me enjoy them in turn. That brings a feeling which I would say is happiness.
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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 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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I feel like I made a little bit of difference.
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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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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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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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If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.
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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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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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Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.
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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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In film, you have to let go sometimes.
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The foibles of my body are pretty much out there in the work I do.
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