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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. "

Philip Seymour Hoffman

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" 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. "

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