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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Asimov: I don't know of any science fiction writer who really attempts to be a prophet. Such authors accomplish their tasks not by being correct in their predictions, necessarily, but merely by hammering home-in story after story-the notion that life is going to be different.
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Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.
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Today I should not be identified with any kind of regressive therapy.
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If you are going to stand for the rule of law, if you are going to raise your hand and support the constitution, then you need to follow the law.
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Whatever you do, have fun while doing it. That's important for me.
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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.
