American - Actor | July 23, 1967 - February 2, 2014
My girlfriend's a costume designer in the theater.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
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I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.
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I like to come to the set with very strong ideas and strong opinions about how to do things. And I like also dealing with somebody who's like that.
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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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I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.
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I didn't really buy LPs or go to concerts.
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I've never been on a cruise.
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Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.
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Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire.
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The weight comes off, you know? If you stop with the bread and the pie, it really does. It really works.
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My ideal weight is 205, actually.
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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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