Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes
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Plays never feel like the right thing to do at the time.
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Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends.
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When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about.
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I know I wasn't as handsome as some other guys, but I was OK with that.
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Actors are responsible to the people we play.
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I think I'm less anonymous than I was.
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Sometimes I'm uncomfortable with the level of fame I've got! It all depends on the day and what's going on. I don't desire any more fame. I don't need it.
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I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting.
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There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem.
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In life, do you ever really know if you're missing an opportunity? No, you really don't.
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I think therapy is a helpful thing. I think everyone knows it. You do it for your life, you do it for yourself, because you want to explore some things, and get at the bottom of some things. It's about your life, the quality of your life.
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People actually live with their id exposed. They're not good at concealing what's going on inside.
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One person's religion is another person's cult.
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Actors are investigators.
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The size of my head though is pretty abnormal.
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When people don't know who you are, they're seeing your work for the first time. But if they've seen a lot, getting certain things across is a more difficult.
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There's nothing risky in talking about your personal life. People do it all the time.
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When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.
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The drama nerd comes out in me when I'm in a theater.
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There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters; what happens to them is not lifelike.
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People aren't going to throw the kind of money at certain people that they used to.
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The weight comes off, you know? If you stop with the bread and the pie, it really does. It really works.
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You can look at anything as a cult. Churches are cults in their own way.
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Creating something is all about problem-solving.