Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes
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Creating anything is hard.
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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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I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'
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I had insecurities and fears like everybody does, and I got over it. But I was interested in the parts of me that struggled with those things.
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I didn't really buy LPs or go to concerts.
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Yeah, writers do hate writing.
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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.
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Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.
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I've worked with a lot of characters that are unhinged. I've played characters that are unhinged. That's, like, my job.
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My ideal weight is 205, actually.
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Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.
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I don't want to repeat myself.
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My mum is incredibly intelligent.
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Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.
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Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that.
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I think part of being an actor is staying private.