Fame Quote by Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

Philip Seymour Hoffman

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To act well isn't an easy thing.

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I don't want to repeat myself.

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

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I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting.

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I was a breed of people who aren't capable of doing anything, really. At college I began to get the idea that being macho wasn't the accepted norm in the liberal world, and especially the world I entered into, which was the artistic world. I had a lot of problems with that because I was struggling with the need to…

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I would definitely say pleasure is not happiness. Because I think I kill pleasure. Like I take too much of it in, and therefore…

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Creating anything is 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…

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When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate. But it's one that you have to let…

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In a film there a lot of people scheduling, you know.

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