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" I got into plays in high school then I ended up going to college for it. "
Philip Seymour Hoffman
School
High
Got
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" The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool. "
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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. "
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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. "
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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 like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid. "
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" I think I'm less anonymous than I was. "
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" People aren't going to throw the kind of money at certain people that they used to. "
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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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" 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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" I don't want to repeat myself. "
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Want
Repeat
" If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged. "
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Earth
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" I don't have a specific thing I want anyone to get out of anything I do. "
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Want
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" My ideal weight is 205, actually. "
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Ideal
Actually
" Actors are responsible to the people we play. "
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People
Responsible
" I've worked with a lot of characters that are unhinged. I've played characters that are unhinged. That's, like, my job. "
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Characters
Played
" Plays never feel like the right thing to do at the time. "
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Right
Feel
Like
" 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. "
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People
Struggle
Me
" It's really hard to watch things and then not think about anything afterwards. "
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Watch
Hard
" In life, do you ever really know if you're missing an opportunity? No, you really don't. "
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Missing
Opportunity
" In film, you have to let go sometimes. "
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Sometimes
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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.' "
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" I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic. "
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Know
Movies
New York
" The foibles of my body are pretty much out there in the work I do. "
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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. "
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Project
" Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film. "
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" I didn't have any idea that I would be able to have a career in film. "
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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. "
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Grateful
Business
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