Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes

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.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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YourselfAmazingWorryYouKind

Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear.

Andrew Motion

FearLightMeHillsEvenTonight

When 'Nevermind' came out, my roommate had the CD. At first, I actually thought, 'This is too polished and commercial.' It was a little off-putting. But then I was like, 'This is the best music ever.' It felt so close to what I wanted to do.

Rivers Cuomo

MusicBestThoughtFirstOutLittle

If you're telling a story, and somebody is going to come out badly, it better be you.

Rob Lowe

StoryBetterYouOutGoingCome

I want to do what I like and that's play football.

Royston Drenthe

FootballPlayWantPlay Football

We were able to flood the zone immediately.

Jonathan Klein

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My earliest memories are making little Super 8 films - or watching my brother make stop-motion space spectaculars.

Jonathan Nolan

MemoriesSpaceBrotherWatchingMake

Acting is my first love.

Dawn Wells

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'The Moonstone' was all I could have hoped for. A mysterious, cursed jewel, wrested from India, only to be stolen later from a great British mansion. Enigmatic, dangerous priests who follow it across the ocean in hopes of wresting it back.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

GreatOceanBackIndiaDangerous

What emotions would we experience if we weren't working ourselves to death? What wishes drive us? What fantasies hitch themselves to our continual busyness? Only when we step away from our frenzy can we know.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

ExperienceDeathStepDriveEmotions

I would like to have seen my sons growing up.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Growing UpGrowingUpSeenWould

I think it is the easiest mentality for a human being to be either colonized or to colonize. The structure of either the slave or the master seems to be the simplest and the most relaxing one to slip into. Either you are a slave, and you don't have to think for yourself, or you're a master, and you don't have to work for yourself.

Alice Oswald

WorkYourselfThinkYouHumanSlave

We teach people how to treat us.

Phil McGraw

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