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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.
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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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 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.
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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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Yeah, writers do hate writing.
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Why you do something is always kind of a mystery to me.
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The strange thing is I never thought I'd do films.
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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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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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