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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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Creating something is all about problem-solving.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
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I didn't have any idea that I would be able to have a career in film.
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Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire.
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I try not to plan that too much.
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To act well isn't an easy thing.
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My soul is in good shape.
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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.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
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If I don't feel like I'm doing the job well, and I don't know how to get there, or I'm too scared, or whatever, I'm not a happy guy and I'm not pleasant. I'm not pleasant to be around.
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I have a fine level of recognition in the business and among the acting community now, so I consider myself one of the lucky ones. If I didn't think that, there would be something wrong with me. I'm grateful and thankful for what I've got.
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I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic.
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I got into plays in high school then I ended up going to college for it.
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The film is made in the editing room. The shooting of the film is about shopping, almost. It's like going to get all the ingredients together, and you've got to make sure before you leave the store that you got all the ingredients. And then you take those ingredients and you can make a good cake - or not.
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The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
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I don't have a specific thing I want anyone to get out of anything I do.
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I've had to make the transition from sweeping in for 15 minutes, doing my stuff and clearing out, to carrying a movie for the duration - in a dress.
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I had a father who was a traveling salesman.
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I like to come to the set with very strong ideas and strong opinions about how to do things. And I like also dealing with somebody who's like that.
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If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.
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Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
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I do understand what it is to not want to commit to someone, knowing that might bring pain or commit to a life that has to do with being responsible to people other than myself. These things, I think, are normal things.
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I didn't really buy LPs or go to concerts.
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Ultimately what I'll do next is up in the air for me.
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It's really hard to watch things and then not think about anything afterwards.
Philip Seymour Hoffman