Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes
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It's hard for anybody who works a lot and has children. But I wouldn't trade it for anything.
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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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In a film there a lot of people scheduling, you know.
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My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise.
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I got sober when I was 22 years old.
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Why you do something is always kind of a mystery to me.
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I didn't go out looking for negative characters; I went out looking for people who have a struggle and a fight to tackle. That's what interests me.
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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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No one wants to be pretentious about what they do or take it seriously, because that is just weird.
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Good work is the only thing that would make me feel jealous or envious.
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I've never been on a cruise.
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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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I've seen a lot of friends who have a lot of great projects, whether it's a script or a play or whatever, and it is a great project and they have great people involved, and they can't make it.
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I know some really great actors who are pretty judgmental people, pretty critical people. But they're great actors. When they're acting, that's the craft.
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The idea that you have a vision of what you're supposed to be, or going to be, or where your kids are going to be - and that that doesn't work out - is always going to be something that's going to affect people and move people.
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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 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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In film, you have to let go sometimes.
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When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate. But it's one that you have to let go of ultimately.
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I think therapy is a helpful thing. I think everyone knows it. You do it for your life, you do it for yourself, because you want to explore some things, and get at the bottom of some things. It's about your life, the quality of your life.
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Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love.
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My girlfriend's a costume designer in the theater.
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I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.
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The size of my head though is pretty abnormal.