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Philip Seymour Hoffman


American
July 23, 1967
Actor
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My ideal weight is 205, actually.


Philip Seymour Hoffman
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My soul is in good shape.


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Actors are responsible to the people we play.


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I try not to plan that too much.


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In film, you have to let go sometimes.


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


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Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.


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


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To be fair to my dad, he is one of the brightest men I've ever met.


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I think you ultimately have to love who you're playing. You have to have that kind of feeling. You have to have passion for the person.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly.
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There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters; what happens to them is not lifelike.
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The idea that you have a vision of what you're supposed to be, or going to be, or where your kids are going to be - and that that doesn't work out - is always going to be something that's going to affect people and move people.
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