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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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A lot of people describe me as chubby, which seems so easy, so first-choice. Or stocky. Fair-skinned. Tow-headed. There are so many other choices. How about dense? I mean, I'm a thick kind of guy. But I'm never described in attractive ways. I'm waiting for somebody to say I'm at least cute. But nobody has.
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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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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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Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends.
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Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly.
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The weight comes off, you know? If you stop with the bread and the pie, it really does. It really works.
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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 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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