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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Sometimes, once a fight starts, you have to do what you have to do to win.
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I'm so happy in the projects that I'm able to make, to be involved in projects like this. This isn't always where it was at for me, I started working when I was a kid. I'm just a different person now, I'm 30. I started working when I was 11 and it's a different ballgame.
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I always thought the point was to have a bigger life, to meet more people. So I don't understand Hollywood.
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The final ballots represent players, managers, executives and builders who are top-tier candidates and worthy of review for consideration for election to the Hall of Fame.
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There's nothing risky in talking about your personal life. People do it all the time.
