Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes
It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other.
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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
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If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.
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A lot of the players that I play with who are Canadian, they call me Patty. Before then, I never heard it. I didn't mind Patty.
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Trying to think about the rest of the team over myself or my scoring is something that I never really had to do before.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
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I think, especially in pop culture, we're brought up to think that a normal pop star is this pretty, well-kept-together girl.
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With my book 'How to Remodel a Man,' I was on 'Oprah,' 'Fox News,' 'The Early Show,' and 'Good Morning America.' 'Oprah' was the best - an hour long segment. TV is so short, you answer a few questions, and then it's over. It feels like a hit-and-run with a camera.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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Jadakiss is not no walk in no park. Nas is not no walk in no park. These are dudes that could have ended my career.
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Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.
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I left my mark on 'Dark Shadows.' One day I was doing my lines perfectly from Act 3. Everyone else was doing Act 2.
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I have always actually been with and attracted to very strong women, and I think I've learned a lot from them.
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I'm not going to impose my vision on the people of Puerto Rico.
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The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty.
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The blind audition process can be nerve-wracking.
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Before a show, I usually give myself two-and-a-half hours to get ready. I prepare my shoes first. New ballet pumps can sound like tap shoes. You have to take the noise out of them by hitting them against stone. It takes half an hour to do each pair, and I can go through three pairs in one night.
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It is my personality alone that has brought back the waltz and made it a global craze.
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It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other.
