"I'm probably more personal when I'm acting than……" — Philip Seymour Hoffman
"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."
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111 Quotes by Philip Seymour Hoffman
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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…
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All over the world, young men and young women will always dream dreams.
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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…
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My favorite thing about acting is being alone and going through the scripts and working on it and getting ideas…
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Acting is so difficult for me that, unless the work is of a certain stature in my mind, unless I…
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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…
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I don't know, I was young, I drank too much, you know, so I stopped. You know what I mean,…
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Learning how to die is therefore learning how to live,
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The strange thing is I never thought I'd do films,
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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,…
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Was I happy? Or was I just not aware?
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Great talent admits shortcomings.
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