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Great talent admits shortcomings.
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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Character Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
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Television Actor
Theatrical Director
Voice Actor
Fairport
New York
Philip Hoffman
Phil Hoffman
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Women are the life force we look at for their beauty.
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My girlfriend's a costume designer in the theater.
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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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Actors are responsible to the people we play. I don't label or judge. I just play them as honestly and expressively and creatively as I can.
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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 had a father who was a traveling salesman.
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Learning how to die is therefore learning how to live.
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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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I've been reading a bunch of stuff lately - like Joseph Campbell - that has made me realize that people in our cultural, especially in the liberal community, often go in search of a foe. It's like we always need a hill to climb up or something to push against, or we feel as if we're not working constructively in the world.
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I don't know, I was young, I drank too much, you know, so I stopped. You know what I mean, it's not really complicated. I had no interest in drinking in moderation. And I still don't. Just because all that time's passed doesn't mean maybe it was just a phase. That's you know, that's who I am.
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In film, you have to let go sometimes.
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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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Yeah, writers do hate writing.
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Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.
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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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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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I got into plays in high school then I ended up going to college for it.
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My mother's a staunch feminist, so I grew up with very strong feminist messages. As a result, I battled her in my teenage years because my image of being a man was a deformed one.
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