#ere

They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#bought #cheap #combined #folk #i

So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me. ↗

— Dustin Hoffman

#army #because #college #first #go

But I felt that most of us in the world today gave priority to our personal interests. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#gave #i #interests #most #our

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

#fight #go #i #interests #looking

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

#everybody #fears #got #had #i

I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#did #different #different kinds #i #just

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. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#company #constantly #different #different things #direct

The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#attention #center #drive #inside #me

If I was a little bit younger I would worry more. I'd want to do one thing at a time but now I try to do a bunch of different things at a time if I can. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#bunch #different #different things #i #i can

The idea that you have a vision of what you're supposed to be, or going to be, or where your kids are going to be - and that that doesn't work out - is always going to be something that's going to affect people and move people. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#always #going #idea #kids #move