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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Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.
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The actors feel that the music played before the curtain rises will put the audience in the wrong mood. The playwright suggests that the (purposefully lugubrious) music be played at twice-speed. This peps it up somewhat while retaining its essentially dark and gloomy character. The actors listen carefully, and are pleased.
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To succeed in business, you must build a brand and never destroy it. One competitive advantage I had when I ventured into manufacturing was my brand “Dangote,” which I diligently built in the course of my trading commodities.
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Satan's most effective weapon is to take our eyes off of what God has declared over us in the gospel.
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I began my tale in the hope that I might produce something to interest the young (perchance, also, the old) in a most momentous case—the total abolition of the African slave-trade. I close it with the prayer that God may make it a tooth in the file which shall eventually cut the chain of slavery, and set the black man free.
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There's nothing risky in talking about your personal life. People do it all the time.
