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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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“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

Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman

“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

Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman

“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.”

Ifs Way Done Helping Actors Interesting Acting Projects Directing Actors

Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman

“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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“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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“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 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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“If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.”

Ifs Humans Earth Human Beings Strange Walking

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“Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that.”

Ifs Way Looks Care Guy Vanity Vain Best Work Doing Your Best

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“In life, do you ever really know if you're missing an opportunity? No, you really don't.”

Ifs Knows Opportunity Missing

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“Sometimes it's hard to say no. Ultimately, if you stick to your guns, you have the career that you want. Don't get me wrong. I love a good payday and I'll do films for fun. But ultimately my main goal is to do good work. If it doesn't pay well, so be it.”

Ifs Want Wells Sometimes Hard Film Fun Goal Pay Careers Gun Sticks Good Work Payday

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“My mum's name is Marilyn O'Connor. She's here tonight and I would like if you see her for you to congratulate her because she brought up four kids alone and she deserves congratulations for that.”

Ifs Kids Names Four Deserve Tonight Mum Congratulations

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“If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft.”

Ifs Actors Given Chance Rooms Acting Practice Paid Crafts Great Actors Stage Actors Theatre Acting Theatre Actors Actors And Acting Stage Acting Acting From Actors

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“Study, find all the good teachers and study with them, get involved in acting to act, not to be famous or for the money. Do plays. It's not worth it if you are just in it for the money. You have to love it.”

Ifs Play Acting Study Teacher Involved Worth It Get Involved Good Teacher Not Worth It Good Acting Acting Teachers

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“I think I would have drank myself to death, literally, if I didn't just stop, once and for all when I did. I am not ever going to preach to anyone about drugs or drinking. But, for me, when they were around, I had no self control.”

Ifs Thinking Self Drug Drinking Self Control Drank

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“Acting is so difficult for me that, unless the work is of a certain stature in my mind, unless I reach the expectations I have of myself, I'm unhappy. Then it's a miserable existence. I'm putting a piece of myself out there. If it doesn't do anything, I feel so ashamed. I'm afraid I'll be the kind of actor who thought he would make a difference and didn't. Right now, though, I feel like I made a little bit of difference.”

“To have that concentration to act well is like lugging things up staircases in your brain. I think that’s a thing people don’t understand. It is that exhausting. If you’re doing it well, if you’re concentrating the way you need to, if your will and your concentration and emotional and imagination and emotional life are all in tune, concentrated and working together in that role, that is just like lugging weights upstairs with your head... And I don’t think that should get any easier.”

“If I was a little bit younger I would worry more. I'd want to do one thing at a time but now I try to do a bunch of different things at a time if I can.”

Ifs Want Trying Littles I Can Different Bits Worry One Thing Little Bit Bunch Different Things One Thing At A Time

Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman

“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. The success part of it is all gravy.”

Ifs Done Felt Hopefully Good Work Doing Good Make You Happy Make Me Happy Gravy Fruitful Life

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“I have a fine level of recognition in the business and among the acting community now, so I consider myself one of the lucky ones. If I didn't think that, there would be something wrong with me. I'm grateful and thankful for what I've got.”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Community Levels Acting Fine Lucky Grateful Recognition Grateful And Thankful

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“The weight comes off, you know? If you stop with the bread and the pie, it really does. It really works.”

Ifs Knows Doe Weight Bread Pie

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About the Author

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

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