Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes

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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

  Motivational, World, Obscure

  "Fictional character: Lester Bangs". "Almost Famous", www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• Don't let people treat you like a cigarette, they only use you when they're bored and step on you when they're done. Be like drugs, let them die for you.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  People, Bored, Drug

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• Great talent admits shortcomings.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Talent, Great Talent, Shortcomings

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• Study, find all the good teachers and study with them, get involved in acting to act, not to be famous or for the money. Do plays. It's not worth it if you are just in it for the money. You have to love it.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Teacher, Play, Acting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Earth, Strange, Humans

  "Oscar knight". Interview with Simon Garfield, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2006.

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• I didn't go out looking for negative characters; I went out looking for people who have a struggle and a fight to tackle. That's what interests me.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Struggle, Character, Fighting

  Interview with Meghan O'Rourke, www.slate.com. January 31, 2006.

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• To be loved, I think, is the thing that gets you up in the morning.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Morning, Thinking

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• You must be really bad, because it is a puzzle. Creating anything is hard. It’s a cliché thing to say, but every time you start a job, you just don’t know anything. I mean, I can break something down, but ultimately I don’t know anything when I start work on a new movie. You start stabbing out, and you make a mistake, and it’s not right, and then you try again and again. The key is you have to commit. And that’s hard because you have to find what it is you are committing to.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Inspirational, Movie, Moving On

  "A Higher Calling" by Lynn Hirschberg, www.nytimes.com. December 19, 2008.

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• I think you should be serious about what you do because this is it. This is the only life you've got.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Inspirational, Thinking, Serious

  "Philip Seymour Hoffman Interview - DOUBT". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 21, 2008.

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• There's something in the very small minutia of life that tells us something about the big, big picture that we see every day all over the place, and so I think the more specific and creative and revelatory you are in the micro, the more powerful the macro will be.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Powerful, Thinking, Creative

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Learning how to die is therefore learning how to live.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Dies

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• I'm probably more personal when I'm acting than at any other time. More open, more direct. Because it allows me to be something that I can't always feel comfortable with when I'm living my own life, you know? Because it's make-believe.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Believe, Acting, Feels

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think I would have drank myself to death, literally, if I didn't just stop, once and for all when I did. I am not ever going to preach to anyone about drugs or drinking. But, for me, when they were around, I had no self control.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Drinking, Thinking, Self

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One person's religion is another person's cult.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Cult, Persons

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• Actors are responsible to the people we play. I don't label or judge. I just play them as honestly and expressively and creatively as I can.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Play, People, Judging

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think you gotta have an honesty and a humility about human nature and that it's not about you at the end of the day.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Honesty, Humility, Thinking

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• You have all the influence you choose to have.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Destiny, Influence, You Choose

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• There’s a period of time in your life when I kind of look back, and I’m like, was I happy, or was I just not aware?

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  "Philip Seymour Hoffman Reflects On Happiness, His Children In Unheard Interview". PBS Digital Studios’ "Blank on Blank" series, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 4, 2014.

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• Something that could bring you wealth and fame could also be your end, your undoing.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Wealth, Fame

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Creating something is all about problem-solving.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Creating, Creating Something, Problem

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. September 15, 2010.

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• Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Funny

  "Philip Seymour Hoffman Interview - THE SAVAGES". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 28, 2007.

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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.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Editing, Cake, Shopping

  "Philip Seymour Hoffman Goes Directing", www.interviewmagazine.com. December 14, 2010.

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• Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Struggle, Thinking, Self

  "Philip Seymour Hoffman: 'I was moody, mercurial... it was all or nothing'". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2011.

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• I know I wasn't as handsome as some other guys, but I was OK with that.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Guy, Other Guys, Handsome

  "Oscar knight". Interview with Simon Garfield, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2006.

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• I've been reading a bunch of stuff lately - like Joseph Campbell - that has made me realize that people in our cultural, especially in the liberal community, often go in search of a foe. It's like we always need a hill to climb up or something to push against, or we feel as if we're not working constructively in the world.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Reading, People, Community

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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