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The foibles of my body are pretty much out there in the work I do.
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
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In film, you have to let go sometimes.
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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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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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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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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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My soul is in good shape.
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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 always knew where I needed to go but I sometimes had a problem getting there, so I had to work harder at it. Once in a while I'd wanna take off the blouse and heels because I'd get that I just wanna be a guy feeling I had when growing up.
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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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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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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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When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate.
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I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting.
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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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There's something in the very small minutia of life that tells us something about the big, big picture that we see every day all over the place, and so I think the more specific and creative and revelatory you are in the micro, the more powerful the macro will be.
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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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