Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes
There's nothing risky in talking about your personal life. People do it all the time.
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
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I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.
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I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
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We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with 'Shooting Fish.' Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.
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Starting in the third grade, my dad had me read the 'Denver Post.' I had to discuss two articles with him before dinner, and we would also watch '60 Minutes' together.
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In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.
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I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what's happening to the country? Look at all the health problems, the economy, the recession and crime.
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Literary fiction - if we must use the term - is not the plotless, meandering indulgence that its detractors would have you believe.
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A household name is like ketchup. Everybody wants ketchup. Ketchup doesn't hurt anybody.
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I was torn between the Americanness my mom wanted for me and the Mexicanness my father wanted - they were wrestling for cultural influence over me.
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I'm not a big fan of other people's punctuation. When I read a script I've got a sort of automatic eraser. I don't see punctuation or capitals or instructions. I want to decide when the sentence is over. Who's to say when a sentence ends and the other one begins? Sometimes it begins in the middle of the next sentence.
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There's nothing risky in talking about your personal life. People do it all the time.
