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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
Actor
Character Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Theatrical Director
Voice Actor
Fairport
New York
Philip Hoffman
Phil Hoffman
Talent
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Shortcomings
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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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There’s a period of time in your life when I kind of look back, and I’m like, was I happy, or was I just not aware?
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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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[Truman Capote] was not only just selling his writing, but he was selling himself as a person.
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The foibles of my body are pretty much out there in the work I do.
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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 have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'
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I know that obviously, that if you want to get the story, if you want to get close to somebody, if you want to find out what is really the truth or what's really interesting, you have to create a trust between these two things, between the journalist and the subject.
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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'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 know some really great actors who are pretty judgmental people, pretty critical people. But they're great actors. When they're acting, that's the craft.
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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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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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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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I feel like I made a little bit of difference.
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My girlfriend's a costume designer in the theater.
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I've grown to really love musicals, you know?
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Creating anything is hard.
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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.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
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.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
