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Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes

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.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Ideas Strong Opinions Things Come

You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people.

Food People You Civilization Healthy

As soon as you take your hobby and make it into your profession, it sort of kills it as a hobby.

Hobby You Take Your Soon Profession

I've got five grandkids. They play baseball, they play football, they play basketball. I go to all the games. You always have that urge to say something when you're watching them. But I've learned to keep it to myself. I've blurted out some things and embarrassed myself.

Myself Football Baseball Basketball

There's no question that O.J. Simpson had been a substitute white man in America. He had gained honorary white status. He was not viewed by many white Americans as black. He was not seen as the African American athlete who was rebellious: Jim Brown, Muhammad Ali, Hank Aaron... He was accepted in golf clubs that were very tony.

Michael Eric Dyson

Man Black American Golf America

The knowledge that we are responsible for living the life we have is our most powerful tool.

Life Knowledge Powerful Living Tool

An image has stuck for most of my career and it isn't flattering.

Career Image Stuck Most Flattering

To me, nothing beats McDonalds and a scary movie at home.

Home Me Nothing Scary Movie Beats

I always have strong urges to sabotage myself. Whenever someone says they like something about my music, I tend to not want to do that anymore. It's not even that I don't like it anymore: it's that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.

Music Myself People Me Strong Find

You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor.

Great Humor Parents Me You See

Like the majority of Alaskans, I supported a constitutional amendment in 1998 defining marriage as only between a man and a woman, but my thinking has evolved as America has witnessed a clear cultural shift.

Marriage Woman Man Thinking America

Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more.

Me Television More Just Accepted

In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music.

Life Music America Self-Absorbed

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