Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes

I think you should be serious about what you do because this is it. This is the only life you've got.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 23, 1967 - February 2, 2014

Topics

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Wall Street's biggest fight with Obama was over the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which Obama signed into law in the summer of 2010.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

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Theater people say you are either a comedian or a tragedian, and I'm a tragedian. And the vexing, dark characters, the ones where I don't understand their pain or their anguish, they are the characters that appeal to me.

John Logan

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If the government can make money, what on earth does it collect taxes for you and me for? Why don't it make what money it wants, take the taxes out, and give the balance to us?

Robert Green Ingersoll

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When people want to be associated with us, in the end, that's going to help us gain more fans.

Matthew Ramsey

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The last week before a fight always goes really slow.

Amir Khan

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Weird stuff, for me, is not that weird. I guess if it were other people, they'd think it was weird. I eat nutritional yeast. And sometimes I take clay shots to help pull toxins out of my body. I eat weird L.A. food, so I guess that's probably weird in other people's eyes.

Stephanie Beatriz

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You always get a buzz from winning. Winning is... everything.

Tony McCoy

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So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

Rowan Williams

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Shooting a film is like a kismet quest. You have thirty days and you need magic to happen. So that's why I wear suits. I'm praying to the gods, and I'm doing everything I can to respect the powers of the world.

Mike Mills

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In a series, you really need to stay open-minded. It's not like a play or a film, where you can create and fully commit to your character's back-story.

Johnny Galecki

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When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.

Christopher Lasch

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Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.

Chuck Palahniuk

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