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" I got sober when I was 22 years old. "
Philip Seymour Hoffman
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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. "
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" To act well isn't an easy thing. "
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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 try not to plan that too much. "
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" My ideal weight is 205, actually. "
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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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" In life, do you ever really know if you're missing an opportunity? No, you really don't. "
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" You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body. "
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" One person's religion is another person's cult. "
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" When people don't know who you are, they're seeing your work for the first time. But if they've seen a lot, getting certain things across is a more difficult. "
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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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" 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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" Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends. "
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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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" 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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" It's really hard to watch things and then not think about anything afterwards. "
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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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" Actors are responsible to the people we play. "
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" I think you should be serious about what you do because this is it. This is the only life you've got. "
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" There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem. "
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" If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged. "
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" It's hard for anybody who works a lot and has children. But I wouldn't trade it for anything. "
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" My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise. "
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" Plays never feel like the right thing to do at the time. "
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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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" Why you do something is always kind of a mystery to me. "
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" The film is made in the editing room. The shooting of the film is about shopping, almost. It's like going to get all the ingredients together, and you've got to make sure before you leave the store that you got all the ingredients. And then you take those ingredients and you can make a good cake - or not. "
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