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If I don't feel like I'm doing the job well, and I don't know how to get there, or I'm too scared, or whatever, I'm not a happy guy and I'm not pleasant. I'm not pleasant to be around. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#doing #feel #get #guy #happy

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

If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#challenged #earth #human #human being #psychologically

My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#always #been #came #changed #film

My mum is incredibly intelligent. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#intelligent #mum

I went to UC Berkeley for college, and it was during the period when the whole punk movement was happening. ↗

— Susanna Hoffs

#college #during #happening #i #movement

Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#actually #best #best work #care #comes

Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#director #film #going #i #i think

When people don't know who you are, they're seeing your work for the first time. But if they've seen a lot, getting certain things across is a more difficult. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#certain #certain things #difficult #first #first time

Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully? ↗

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

#genius #most #pinions #real #simplicity