American - Actor | July 23, 1967 - February 2, 2014
If I was a little bit younger I would worry more. I'd want to do one thing at a time but now I try to do a bunch of different things at a time if I can.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
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When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about.
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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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The drama nerd comes out in me when I'm in a theater.
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I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting.
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Creating anything is hard.
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In life, do you ever really know if you're missing an opportunity? No, you really don't.
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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 go of ultimately.
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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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I didn't go out looking for negative characters; I went out looking for people who have a struggle and a fight to tackle. That's what interests me.
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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 have a specific thing I want anyone to get out of anything I do.
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