"Actors are responsible to the people we play." — Philip Seymour Hoffman

"Actors are responsible to the people we play."

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

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111 Quotes by Philip Seymour Hoffman

Philip Seymour Hoffman has 111 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I try to live my life in such a way that I don't have any regrets. That's probably why I…
All over the world, young men and young women will always dream dreams.
I think I would have drank myself to death, literally, if I didn't just stop, once and for all when…
My favorite thing about acting is being alone and going through the scripts and working on it and getting ideas…
Acting is so difficult for me that, unless the work is of a certain stature in my mind, unless I…
A lot of people describe me as chubby, which seems so easy, so first-choice. Or stocky. Fair-skinned. Tow-headed. There are…
I don't know, I was young, I drank too much, you know, so I stopped. You know what I mean,…
Learning how to die is therefore learning how to live,
The strange thing is I never thought I'd do films,
You must be really bad, because it is a puzzle. Creating anything is hard. It’s a cliché thing to say,…
Was I happy? Or was I just not aware?
Great talent admits shortcomings.

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