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When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate.
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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[Truman Capote] was not only just selling his writing, but he was selling himself as a person.
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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 always knew where I needed to go but I sometimes had a problem getting there, so I had to work harder at it. Once in a while I'd wanna take off the blouse and heels because I'd get that I just wanna be a guy feeling I had when growing up.
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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 life, do you ever really know if you're missing an opportunity? No, you really don't.
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I didn't have any idea that I would be able to have a career in film.
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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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Plays never feel like the right thing to do at the time.
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