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All Quotes by author - Philip Seymour Hoffman
" Actors are investigators. "
Investigators
" Actors are responsible to the people we play. "
Play
People
Responsible
" 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. "
Remember
You
Always
" Creating anything is hard. "
Hard
Anything
Creating
" Creating something is all about problem-solving. "
Something
Creating
Problem-Solving
" 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
Yourself
You
" Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction. "
Even
Always
Documentary
" 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. "
Film
Gun
You
" Good work is the only thing that would make me feel jealous or envious. "
Work
Feel
Good
" 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
Struggle
Me
" I didn't have any idea that I would be able to have a career in film. "
Career
Film
Idea
" I didn't really buy LPs or go to concerts. "
Concerts
Buy
Go
" I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting. "
Acting
Like
Directing
" I don't have a specific thing I want anyone to get out of anything I do. "
Anything
Want
Get
" I don't want to repeat myself. "
Myself
Want
Repeat
" I do understand what it is to not want to commit to someone, knowing that might bring pain or commit to a life that has to do with being responsible to people other than myself. These things, I think, are normal things. "
Life
Want
People
" If I don't feel like I'm doing the job well, and I don't know how to get there, or I'm too scared, or whatever, I'm not a happy guy and I'm not pleasant. I'm not pleasant to be around. "
Know
Job
Happy
" 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. "
I Can
Now
Time
" If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged. "
Weird
Earth
Strange
" I got into plays in high school then I ended up going to college for it. "
School
High
Got
" I got sober when I was 22 years old. "
Years
Old
Got
" I had a father who was a traveling salesman. "
Father
Salesman
Traveling
" 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. "
Interested
Like
Things
" 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. "
Grateful
Business
Thankful
" 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.' "
God
Empathy
Famous
" I know I wasn't as handsome as some other guys, but I was OK with that. "
Some
Other
OK
" 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. "
Acting
Craft
Great
" I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid. "
Music
Radio
Kid
" 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. "
Strong
Ideas
Like
" In a film there a lot of people scheduling, you know. "
Scheduling
Film
Know
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