Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes

• 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.

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• When people don’t know who you are, they’re seeing your work for the first time. But if they’ve seen a lot, getting certain things across is a more difficult.

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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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• The idea that you have a vision of what you’re supposed to be, or going to be, or where your kids are going to be – and that that doesn’t work out – is always going to be something that’s going to affect people and move people.

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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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• 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 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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• There are characters in movies who I call ‘film characters.’ They don’t exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters; what happens to them is not lifelike.

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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 seen a lot of friends who have a lot of great projects, whether it’s a script or a play or whatever, and it is a great project and they have great people involved, and they can’t make it.

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

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

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• Ultimately what I’ll do next is up in the air for me.

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• To be fair to my dad, he is one of the brightest men I’ve ever met.

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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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• Plays never feel like the right thing to do at the time.

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• People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I’m as sane as anyone who’s done what I’ve done in movies can be.

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Philip Seymour Hoffman (86)

Birth:	23rd June, 1967
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Director, Producer

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