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Plays never feel like the right thing to do at the time.
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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I always thought I'd be a New York theater actor, riding my bicycle to rehearsal. That was all I ever wanted.
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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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[Truman Capote] was not only just selling his writing, but he was selling himself as a person.
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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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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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I got into plays in high school then I ended up going to college for it.
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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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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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Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends.
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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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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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Good work is the only thing that would make me feel jealous or envious.
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People actually live with their id exposed. They're not good at concealing what's going on inside.
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I didn't have any idea that I would be able to have a career in film.
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Yeah, writers do hate writing.
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In life, do you ever really know if you're missing an opportunity? No, you really don't.
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