Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes
Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends.
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.
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Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
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There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.
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I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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Even if the songs are at times painful - 'cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons; some of them dig into deep things that I've been going through - there's a joy that I think people feel from my music and, hopefully, from my performance because I am so in love with doing what I do.
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I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.
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I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.
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I think most Americans don't really care about politicians bickering in Washington.
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I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.
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There are many women who came before me who didn't really have the same opportunities that I have had. That's why I always wanted to be a great ambassador - not only today's generation - but for the women who really didn't have a voice, but who paved the way for me.
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There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately, this can seldom be realized in real life; for the very existence of the evil usually argues a moral weakness in the very place where extraordinary moral strength is called for.
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I love draping; it's less about proportion than fit and the fabric. It's very specialized and I think when women see the construction, they respond to it immediately.
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My introduction to Woody Allen and to Ethan Coen was at the same time. On Broadway, I starred in a play called 'Relatively Speaking,' which was three one-act comedies, one of which was written by Ethan and one of which was by Woody.
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To be wise means to be a teacher, means to be a soul winner. That's our business - That's our only business!
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I don't speak any other languages, which I'm kind of ashamed about, actually.
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Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends.
