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Ultimately, I think writing is a mixture of craft, inspiration, and being incredibly, courageously explorative with yourself - and being brutally honest, too.
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 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 think I'm less anonymous than I was.
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I think you should be serious about what you do because this is it. This is the only life you've got.
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The foibles of my body are pretty much out there in the work I do.
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People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what I've done in movies can be.
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My girlfriend's a costume designer in the theater.
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Great talent admits shortcomings.
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Bob Glaudini, the writer, he's a wonderfully talented man and all his plays and his screenplays, they all have sense of something bigger, even though you're looking at something very simple.
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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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Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends.
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Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that.
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Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire.
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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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Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.
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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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If I was a little bit younger I would worry more. I'd want to do one thing at a time but now I try to do a bunch of different things at a time if I can.
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Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.
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The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.
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Why you do something is always kind of a mystery to me.
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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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