Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes - Page 6

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• I've grown to really love musicals, you know?

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Knows

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• I've never been on a cruise.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Cruise

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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.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Haunting, Want, Projects

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Writing, Blood, Talking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I've seen a lot of friends who have a lot of great projects, whether it's a script or a play or whatever, and it is a great project and they have great people involved, and they can't make it.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Play, People, Scripts

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

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Writing, Truman, Selling

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Good Night, Country, Jobs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Order, Natural, Born

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what I've done in movies can be.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Funny, Thinking, People

  "Tales of Hoffman" by Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2000.

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• I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Beautiful, Empathy, Actors

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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.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Simple, Men, Play

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Together, Directors, Groups

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  People, Suffering, Energy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Stronger, Needs, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Creative, Use, Actors

  Interview with Ryan Bartelmay, believermag.com. May 15, 2018.

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• My mum is incredibly intelligent.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Intelligent, Mum

  "Philip Seymour Hoffman: 'I was moody, mercurial... it was all or nothing'". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2011.

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

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Thinking, Duty, Smoke

  Interview with Ryan Bartelmay, believermag.com. May 15, 2018.

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• My girlfriend's a costume designer in the theater.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Girlfriend, Costumes, Designer

  "Philip Seymour Hoffman Interview - THE SAVAGES". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 28, 2007.

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

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Opportunity, Missing, Knows

  "A Higher Calling" by Lynn Hirschberg, www.nytimes.com. December 19, 2008.

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• You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Careers, Acting, Actors

  "Philip Seymour Hoffman Interview - DOUBT". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 21, 2008.

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