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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

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#become #being #child #differently #look

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

#burden #carry #go #let go #lived

You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#career #crew #crew members #lot #make

You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#air #body #circus #guy #head

Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#cultural #documentation #glorification #human #human spirit

Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you. ↗

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

#devil #help #once #prettiest #won

I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly. ↗

— Roald Hoffmann

#i #language #learned #point #quickly

I basically taught myself how to sing and play by copying records, and that's just how it was for me. I know that's true for a lot of budding musicians out there - that's the thing that gets them inspired, is trying to learn their favorite songs. I think it's a great way to teach yourself. ↗

— Susanna Hoffs

#budding #copying #favorite #gets #great