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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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You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.
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Study, find all the good teachers and study with them, get involved in acting to act, not to be famous or for the money. Do plays. It's not worth it if you are just in it for the money. You have to love it.
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I try to live my life in such a way that I don't have any regrets. That's probably why I work so much. I don't want to feel I missed something important.
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Women are the life force we look at for their beauty.
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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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I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.
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You have to have a personal connection. You have to really want to do it, because if you don't, investing yourself personally, your thoughts, your emotions, yourself into a part, is something you're not going to want to do as much.
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The strange thing is I never thought I'd do films.
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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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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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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 think good art, if I could be pretentious enough to say, I think good art deals with the micro to explain the macro.
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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 mum's name is Marilyn O'Connor. She's here tonight and I would like if you see her for you to congratulate her because she brought up four kids alone and she deserves congratulations for that.
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I've grown to really love musicals, you know?
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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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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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If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.
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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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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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