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When you read, you think, and when you smoke, you think. It's a pleasurable thing, and not a duty.
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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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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I think I would have drank myself to death, literally, if I didn't just stop, once and for all when I did. I am not ever going to preach to anyone about drugs or drinking. But, for me, when they were around, I had no self control.
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Why you do something is always kind of a mystery to me.
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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 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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My soul is in good shape.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
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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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 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 feel like I made a little bit of difference.
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The foibles of my body are pretty much out there in the work I do.
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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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If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.
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In film, you have to let go sometimes.
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The strange thing is I never thought I'd do films.
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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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[Truman Capote] was not only just selling his writing, but he was selling himself as a person.
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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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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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