Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes - Page 2

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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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• A lot of people describe me as chubby, which seems so easy, so first-choice. Or stocky. Fair-skinned. Tow-headed. There are so many other choices. How about dense? I mean, I'm a thick kind of guy. But I'm never described in attractive ways. I'm waiting for somebody to say I'm at least cute. But nobody has.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Cute, Mean, People

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

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• People actually live with their id exposed. They're not good at concealing what's going on inside.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  People, Exposed, Concealing

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• Creating anything is hard.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Creating, Hard

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• For me, acting is torturous, and it's torturous because you know it's a beautiful thing. I was young once, and I said, that's beautiful and I want that. Wanting it is easy, but trying to be great - well, that's absolutely torturous.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Beautiful, Trying, Acting

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

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• I always thought I'd be a New York theater actor, riding my bicycle to rehearsal. That was all I ever wanted.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  New York, Riding, Actors

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• Success isn't what makes you happy. It really isn't. Success is doing what makes you happy and doing good work and hopefully having a fruitful life. If I've felt like I've done good work, that makes me happy. The success part of it is all gravy.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Done, Good Work, Doing Good

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

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• My favorite thing about acting is being alone and going through the scripts and working on it and getting ideas and asking myself questions, looking outside myself for them and researching and getting to the bottom of something and being creative with it as an actor and how to express it in a creative fashion. That's my favorite part. And, the actual acting of it.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Fashion, Ideas, Creative

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

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• My mum's name is Marilyn O'Connor. She's here tonight and I would like if you see her for you to congratulate her because she brought up four kids alone and she deserves congratulations for that.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Congratulations, Kids, Names

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• To have that concentration to act well is like lugging things up staircases in your brain. I think that’s a thing people don’t understand. It is that exhausting. If you’re doing it well, if you’re concentrating the way you need to, if your will and your concentration and emotional and imagination and emotional life are all in tune, concentrated and working together in that role, that is just like lugging weights upstairs with your head... And I don’t think that should get any easier.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Emotional, Thinking, Imagination

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

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• I try to live my life in such a way that I don't have any regrets. That's probably why I work so much. I don't want to feel I missed something important.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Fun, Regret, Important

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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.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Jobs, Character

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• My image of Jesus is someone who is exciting...Were he alive today, he would be causing havoc!

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Jesus, Live For Today, Would Be

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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.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Gun, Directors, Film

  "Philip Seymour Hoffman: The ESQ&A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. October 10, 2012.

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• I think Magnolia is one of the best films I've ever seen and I can say that straight and out and anybody that disagrees with me I'll fight you to the death. I just think it is one of the greatest films I've ever been in and ever seen.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Fighting, Thinking, Film

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• To act well isn't an easy thing.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Easy, Wells, Easy Things

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• There is no pleasure that I haven't actually made myself sick on.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Sick, Pleasure, Made

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• My soul is in good shape.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Soul, Shapes, My Soul

  "Tales of Hoffman" by Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2000.

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• The strange thing is I never thought I'd do films.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Strange, Film, Strange Things

  "Philip Seymour Hoffman, Dead at 46, Spoke Candidly About Addiction" by Asawin Suebsaeng, www.motherjones.com. February 2, 2014.

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• Life is short. Time is short. As we get older, time does quicken. It's long, and it's long pertaining to that thought, that the past is not done with you because you can't rid of it.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Life Is Short, Past, Done With You

  Source: blankonblank.org

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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.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Children, Parent, Looks

  "Philip Seymour Hoffman: Inside the Actor's Very Private Personal Life" by Michael Rothman, abcnews.go.com. February 3, 2014.

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• You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Air, Spinning Plates, Guy

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• I feel like I made a little bit of difference.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Differences, Littles, Made

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

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• Why you do something is always kind of a mystery to me.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Kind, Mystery

  "Searching for the Life of a Salesman" by Patrick Healy, www.nytimes.com. March 8, 2012.

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• Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Actors, Matter, Stuff

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