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“The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.”
-- Philip Seymour Hoffman

#Motivational #World #Share
“I feel like the need to want to create and make something is stronger than the difficulties are going through.”
-- Philip Seymour Hoffman

#Stronger #Want #Needs
“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.”
-- Philip Seymour Hoffman

#Struggle #Character #Fighting
“With "Good Night, and Good Luck," I think it's kind of obvious what [Truman Capote]'s getting at there, and the importance of how it's playing out today, that is journalism doing, are the journalists doing their job, are they being the other checks and balances in our country that the way that obviously Edward R. Murrow was back then.”
-- Philip Seymour Hoffman

#Good Night #Country #Jobs
“Creating anything is hard.”
-- Philip Seymour Hoffman

#Creating
“I know that obviously, that if you want to get the story, if you want to get close to somebody, if you want to find out what is really the truth or what's really interesting, you have to create a trust between these two things, between the journalist and the subject.”
-- Philip Seymour Hoffman

#Two #Interesting #Want
“Study, find all the good teachers and study with them, get involved in acting to act, not to be famous or for the money. Do plays. It's not worth it if you are just in it for the money. You have to love it.”
-- Philip Seymour Hoffman

#Teacher #Play #Acting
“In order for something to be born, something has to die.That's not always, but there is something about that that I find to be true. That is, it's a natural thing.”
-- Philip Seymour Hoffman

#Order #Natural #Born
“I think you should be serious about what you do because this is it. This is the only life you've got.”
-- Philip Seymour Hoffman

#Inspirational #Thinking #Serious
“I think good art, if I could be pretentious enough to say, I think good art deals with the micro to explain the macro.”
-- Philip Seymour Hoffman

#Art #Thinking #Enough
“It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other.”
-- Philip Seymour Hoffman

#Support #Important #Actors
“There's something in the very small minutia of life that tells us something about the big, big picture that we see every day all over the place, and so I think the more specific and creative and revelatory you are in the micro, the more powerful the macro will be.”
-- Philip Seymour Hoffman

#Powerful #Thinking #Creative
“A lot of people describe me as chubby, which seems so easy, so first-choice. Or stocky. Fair-skinned. Tow-headed. There are so many other choices. How about dense? I mean, I'm a thick kind of guy. But I'm never described in attractive ways. I'm waiting for somebody to say I'm at least cute. But nobody has.”
-- Philip Seymour Hoffman

#Cute #Mean #People
“Bob Glaudini, the writer, he's a wonderfully talented man and all his plays and his screenplays, they all have sense of something bigger, even though you're looking at something very simple.”
-- Philip Seymour Hoffman

#Men #Simple #Play
“Actors are responsible to the people we play.”
-- Philip Seymour Hoffman

#Play #People #Actors
“We really enjoy that, having a relationship with writers, developing material and getting a director, actors, that we have kind of that family kind of as a group we're going to do it together mentality in a project. Then the tough part is - so what actually goes has very little to do with us sometimes.”
-- Philip Seymour Hoffman

#Together #Groups #Actors
“Success isn't what makes you happy. It really isn't. Success is doing what makes you happy and doing good work and hopefully having a fruitful life. If I've felt like I've done good work, that makes me happy. The success part of it is all gravy.”
-- Philip Seymour Hoffman

#Done #Good Work #Make You Happy
“I do feel like all the people I meet, all the people I'm in discussions with, if I'm working with somebody, I sense the same energy that everybody is suffering from the same predicament.”
-- Philip Seymour Hoffman

#People #Suffering #Energy
“My image of Jesus is someone who is exciting...Were he alive today, he would be causing havoc!”
-- Philip Seymour Hoffman

#Jesus #Would Be #Alive
“[Truman Capote] was not only just selling his writing, but he was selling himself as a person.”
-- Philip Seymour Hoffman

#Writing #Truman #Selling
“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.”
-- Philip Seymour Hoffman

#Insecurity #Doe #Over It
“When you think about [Truman] Capote in the - was what he did exploitative of a person's life or exploitative of these murders? You look at our culture now, you look at celebrity and how it plays out in our culture now, and Capote was one of the great PR men of his time.”
-- Philip Seymour Hoffman

#Men #Thinking #Play
“Acting's difficult for me because I think you have to be passionately involved in what you're doing.”
-- Philip Seymour Hoffman

#Thinking #Acting #Difficult
“You have to have a personal connection. You have to really want to do it, because if you don't, investing yourself personally, your thoughts, your emotions, yourself into a part, is something you're not going to want to do as much.”
-- Philip Seymour Hoffman

#Want #Connections #Investing
“Good work is the only thing that would make me feel jealous or envious.”
-- Philip Seymour Hoffman

#Jealous #Good Work #Envious
“Yeah, writers do hate writing.”
-- Philip Seymour Hoffman

#Hate #Writing #Yeah

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