103 ordspråk av Philip Seymour Hoffman
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Everything changed after that, ... He became consumed with the story, with success. He was never the same. Writing was never the same.
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He would probably be up here right next to me. I would say he would probably be critical because that was his life. And he'd probably point out all the things that were wrong, but he would also be happy that attention was being showered on him again. I think that was one of his character flaws.
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Her passions became my passions.
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His ambition and his agenda. There was a kind of a ruthlessness, a driven-desire thing that was just exhausting for me to play. You could never kind of relax into a scene and just not care about what you wanted. He was always on point. He was driven.
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Hopefully the film answers that, ... It opens that can of worms, where people walk out and say, 'Wow, I can see why it would be hard for him to function again after that.'
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I began to see that this wasn't simply an odd man, an odd writer. What he discovered writing 'In Cold Blood' embodies what a lot of people go through. He struggled with who he was.
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I can take it! When they came to my house to offer me the role I weighed 240 pounds or something. At the time, my girlfriend was pregnant and we were basically getting huge together.
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I did have hesitations and just knew that if I made the story the main character and really worked on that to fulfill it in a very personal and soulful way, that all the technical stuff about playing him would become secondary for people watching the movie.
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I didn't feel I was the right choice [for the part],
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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 do a play because I want to do this play. Someone once said to me, 'How can you take yourself off the market?' ... I had no idea what he was talking about. This is what we do.
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I don't know what to do.'
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I don't think Capote knew exactly what he was setting himself up for. He said later if he'd known what was going to happen, he would have driven right through the town like a bat out of hell.
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I don't think that that's really important,
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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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