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Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes

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.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Play Movies Real Out Real Life

Five years after Aerosmith got back together, I realized how fragile we are as humans. There was a time I thought we were bulletproof, but then things happened and I came to the realization that I had to play every gig as if it was my last show. You have to start thinking that way, because you never know what's going to happen next.

Joe Perry

Time Together Start Thinking Thought

I've seen people go through divorces and stuff, crossroads that don't end well. Often.

Jennifer Aniston

People End Go Through Seen Well

It was as a mother that I needed my mother back, and I needed to conjure her anew and think about what she would have counselled and what she would have given.

Maya Soetoro-Ng

Mother Think Back She Her Would

I was named for my grandmother. It's an evil-eye name, to protect you from bad things.

Stana Katic

Name You Bad Grandmother Protect

For years following the death of my mother, I wanted to write about her. I started writing what I thought of as personal essays about growing up as her child, but I never could finish any of them. I think I was too close to that loss, and too eager to try and resolve things, to make her death make sense.

Tracy K. Smith

Mother Death Child Growing Up Think

Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.

Rita Rudner

Mother Live Build Castles Air Them

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

Roald Dahl

People Writing Place Different People

Once a popular Alaska governor with a modest record of accomplishment, Palin could conceivably revive her reputation in this era of short memories. But it's hard to imagine her name atop the GOP ballot in 2016, when a cast of heavyweights who sat out 2012 will be vying for the nomination.

Ron Fournier

Memories Reputation Name Short Will

We're now seeing email that people thought they had deleted showing up as evidence in court. You can't erase email. As that becomes more commonly realized, people will be a little wiser about what they type.

Judith Martin

People Thought Showing Up You Seeing

Africa needs more funding to continue to fight all of those diseases. We are losing more than 1.3 million young children under the age of five every year because of malaria. We've already lost 25 million people to the pandemic of HIV-AIDS. More people are dying now from typhoid fever. Diabetes is on the rise.

Dikembe Mutombo

Age Children Fight Losing People

The only thing I have never done is a Broadway play. I'm not sure I have the discipline necessary to do a Broadway play. I know it holds a fascination for certain actors.

Bob Newhart

Discipline Play Know Done Never

Governments, especially democratic ones, are short-term and nationalistic.

Peter Senge

Democratic Short-Term Governments