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Philip Seymour Hoffman

Philip Seymour Hoffman Books

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Philip Seymour Hoffman was an American actor renowned for his exceptional performances in film, theater, and television. He won multiple awards, including two Academy Awards, for his masterful acting in various roles. Hoffman's career spanned a wide range of characters, from stage productions to Hollywood blockbusters, and his acting style was highly acclaimed.

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“Sometimes being an actor is like being some kind of detective where you're on the search for a secret that will unlock the character.”

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“There is no pleasure that I haven't made myself sick on.”

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“Success isn't what makes you happy. It really isn't. Success is doing what makes you happy and doing good work and hopefully having a fruitful life. If I've felt like I've done good work, that makes me happy.”

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“I think part of why I have so many books around me and why I read every day is because I mythologize the writer. I don’t do that with any other artists.”

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“A self-awareness moment. All of a sudden everything he has done comes flashing into his mind, a self-criticism that is unbearable.”

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“I was probably finding my feet more than anybody. I really have to say I was more obsessed with myself faltering than anybody else.”

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“Sometimes I take a temperature of things just because everyone else does. Especially when I'm doing a play. I want to know what people are thinking, positive or negative.”

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“I think you gotta have an honesty and a humility about human nature and that it's not about you at the end of the day.”

Thinking Humans Ends Human Nature Honesty Humility The End Of The Day

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“You have all the influence you choose to have.”

Destiny Influence You Choose

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“If all people are encouraged to actually see who they're coexisting with, or even if they're not coexisting with other people.It's like to look at the world you're in.”

People Ifs World Looks

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“Acting's difficult for me because I think you have to be passionately involved in what you're doing.”

Thinking Difficult Acting Involved

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“You have to have a personal connection. You have to really want to do it, because if you don't, investing yourself personally, your thoughts, your emotions, yourself into a part, is something you're not going to want to do as much.”

Ifs Want Emotion Connections Investing Personal Connection

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“If I'm directing actors, I learn about acting that way. If I'm acting, I learn about directing that way. Producing is just something that's come about because there's projects I find interesting that I would like to help get done.”

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“When you're acting, you're subjective; when you're a director, you're more objective.You're kind of watching from the outside and helping others, and therefore I learn my mistakes through others, and also my assets through others.”

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“There's things that you don't want to do and they keep haunting you and following you. Bennett Miller directed this project [Capote], who is a friend of mine since I was 16, and Danny Futterman wrote it, and he's also been a friend of mine since I was 16.”

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“When you see the carrot at the end of the stick, what do you do to get it? These kinds of things that come up, that come up in the story of Capote writing "In Cold Blood," and when you see the movie, you'll see what I'm talking about.”

Writing Kind Ends Stories Talking Blood Cold Sticks Come Up Carrots

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“When you think about [Truman] Capote in the - was what he did exploitative of a person's life or exploitative of these murders? You look at our culture now, you look at celebrity and how it plays out in our culture now, and Capote was one of the great PR men of his time.”

Thinking Men Looks Persons Play Culture Murder Truman

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“[Truman Capote] was not only just selling his writing, but he was selling himself as a person.”

Writing Persons Selling Truman

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“With "Good Night, and Good Luck," I think it's kind of obvious what [Truman Capote]'s getting at there, and the importance of how it's playing out today, that is journalism doing, are the journalists doing their job, are they being the other checks and balances in our country that the way that obviously Edward R. Murrow was back then.”

“I know that obviously, that if you want to get the story, if you want to get close to somebody, if you want to find out what is really the truth or what's really interesting, you have to create a trust between these two things, between the journalist and the subject.”

Ifs Knows Want Two Stories Interesting Subjects Journalist Two Things Really Interesting

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“In order for something to be born, something has to die.That's not always, but there is something about that that I find to be true. That is, it's a natural thing.”

Order Dies Born Natural Being True Natural Things

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“I think good art, if I could be pretentious enough to say, I think good art deals with the micro to explain the macro.”

Ifs Thinking Art Enough Deals If I Could Pretentious Good Art Macro

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“There's something in the very small minutia of life that tells us something about the big, big picture that we see every day all over the place, and so I think the more specific and creative and revelatory you are in the micro, the more powerful the macro will be.”

Thinking Bigs Powerful Creative Big Picture Macro

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“Bob Glaudini, the writer, he's a wonderfully talented man and all his plays and his screenplays, they all have sense of something bigger, even though you're looking at something very simple.”

Men Play Simple Bigger Bob Screenplays

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“We really enjoy that, having a relationship with writers, developing material and getting a director, actors, that we have kind of that family kind of as a group we're going to do it together mentality in a project. Then the tough part is - so what actually goes has very little to do with us sometimes.”

Kind Littles Sometimes Together Actors Enjoy Groups Materials Directors Projects Tough Developing Mentality

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“I do feel like all the people I meet, all the people I'm in discussions with, if I'm working with somebody, I sense the same energy that everybody is suffering from the same predicament.”

People Ifs Feels Suffering Energy Discussion Predicaments

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“I feel like the need to want to create and make something is stronger than the difficulties are going through.”

Want Needs Feels Difficulty Stronger

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“I would never not work on the part without it playing. That's what being an actor is. You use everything that's influenced you to help you get out of yourself or be more creative.”

Helping Use Actors Creative

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“I have an awful memory, and I have a great memory. Meaning that, if I'm trying to remember something, I can't remember it. But my recall is fantastic.”

Ifs Trying I Can Remember Memories Awful Fantastic Recalls Great Memories Remember Something

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“When you read, you think, and when you smoke, you think. It's a pleasurable thing, and not a duty.”

Thinking Duty Smoke

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“Ultimately, I think writing is a mixture of craft, inspiration, and being incredibly, courageously explorative with yourself - and being brutally honest, too.”

Thinking Writing Inspiration Honest Crafts Mixtures Brutally Honest

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“I had insecurities and fears like everybody does, and I got over it. But I was interested in the parts of me that struggled with those things.”

Doe Insecurity Over It Insecurity And Fear

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“The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.”

World Motivational Share Currency Obscure Uncool

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“Good work is the only thing that would make me feel jealous or envious.”

Feels Jealous Good Work Envious

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“Yeah, writers do hate writing.”

Writing Hate Yeah

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“I know I wasn't as handsome as some other guys, but I was OK with that.”

Knows Guy Handsome Other Guys

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“When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.”

Looks Children Parent Awakening Revelations

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“You can look at anything as a cult. Churches are cults in their own way.”

Way Looks Church Cult

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“Creating something is all about problem-solving.”

Problem Creating Problem Solving Creating Something

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“I didn't go out looking for negative characters; I went out looking for people who have a struggle and a fight to tackle. That's what interests me.”

People Character Fighting Interest Struggle Negative

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“The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.”

Attention Succeed Ambition Center Of Attention

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“When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate. But it's one that you have to let go of ultimately.”

Letting Go Burden Accurate Playing Someone

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“I know some really great actors who are pretty judgmental people, pretty critical people. But they're great actors. When they're acting, that's the craft.”

People Knows Actors Acting Critical Crafts Really Great Judgmental Great Actors Judgmental People

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“Actors are responsible to the people we play.”

People Play Actors Responsible

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“Creating anything is hard.”

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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.”

Kind Helping Worry Middle Helping Others About Yourself Amazing Things

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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.”

Hard Shows Film Directors Gun

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“Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.”

Kind Film Fiction Documentaries

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“I didn't really buy LPs or go to concerts.”

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“I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting.”

Play Acting Nervous

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About the Author

Born: July 23, 1967
Died: February 2, 2014
Known for: Actor
Quotes: 149

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