Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes
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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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
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I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.
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The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects the life of every Indian person in one way or another.
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I'm not really a fan of people who think they're better than others. There's no reason to act that way. I couldn't even stand to yell at someone if they bumped right into me.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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There's plenty of people who've never gotten the opportunity to wrestle at WrestleMania. To perform there and do that, I never thought it would ever happen. I had learned to live with it. So to say I did, that is a big notch in my belt.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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New highways, ports, and runways appear economically foolish if we don't understand the economic growth that flows from such investments.
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All these years, I found that being a good wife for Jeb is my most important role, no doubt.
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My parents had two rules: You had to go to college, and you had to pay for it yourself. So we all did.
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I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just... wouldn't have come up out of the water.
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I grew up in the heart of the Depression.
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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.
