Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes
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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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People aren't going to throw the kind of money at certain people that they used to.
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To act well isn't an easy thing.
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There's nothing risky in talking about your personal life. People do it all the time.
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Actors are investigators.
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You can look at anything as a cult. Churches are cults in their own way.
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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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Creating something is all about problem-solving.
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My soul is in good shape.
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I think you ultimately have to love who you're playing. You have to have that kind of feeling. You have to have passion for the person.
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I've grown to really love musicals, you know?
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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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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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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.
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It's really hard to watch things and then not think about anything afterwards.
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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 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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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 ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.
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I had a father who was a traveling salesman.
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Creating anything is hard.
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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'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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You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.