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You have all the influence you choose to have.
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'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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I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting.
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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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I was probably finding my feet more than anybody. I really have to say I was more obsessed with myself faltering than anybody else.
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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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Creating anything is hard.
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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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I had a father who was a traveling salesman.
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I feel like I made a little bit of difference.
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You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body.
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