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" I know I wasn't as handsome as some other guys, but I was OK with that. "

Philip Seymour Hoffman

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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 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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" I think I'm less anonymous than I was. "

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" I've never been on a cruise. "

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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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" Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends. "

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" Yeah, writers do hate writing. "

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" In film, you have to let go sometimes. "

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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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" I didn't have any idea that I would be able to have a career in film. "

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" I think therapy is a helpful thing. I think everyone knows it. You do it for your life, you do it for yourself, because you want to explore some things, and get at the bottom of some things. It's about your life, the quality of your life. "

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" When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about. "

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" No one wants to be pretentious about what they do or take it seriously, because that is just weird. "

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

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" The foibles of my body are pretty much out there in the work I do. "

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