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Life is short. Time is short. As we get older, time does quicken. It's long, and it's long pertaining to that thought, that the past is not done with you because you can't rid of it.
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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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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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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Learning how to die is therefore learning how to live.
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Why you do something is always kind of a mystery to me.
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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 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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If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.
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My soul is in good shape.
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I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting.
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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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I'm probably more personal when I'm acting than at any other time. More open, more direct. Because it allows me to be something that I can't always feel comfortable with when I'm living my own life, you know? Because it's make-believe.
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I've grown to really love musicals, you know?
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A lot of people describe me as chubby, which seems so easy, so first-choice. Or stocky. Fair-skinned. Tow-headed. There are so many other choices. How about dense? I mean, I'm a thick kind of guy. But I'm never described in attractive ways. I'm waiting for somebody to say I'm at least cute. But nobody has.
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I've had to make the transition from sweeping in for 15 minutes, doing my stuff and clearing out, to carrying a movie for the duration - in a dress.
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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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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 got into plays in high school then I ended up going to college for it.
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