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PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN That technical stuff is really practice. It's not some magical thing. It's hard work, like an athlet...
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN She brought up four kids alone, and for that she deserves congratulations. She took me to my first p...
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN You know, I literally lost all control of my bowels up there. I couldn't think. I was swimming in my...
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN If you see her, congratulate her. She brought up four kids alone, and she deserves your congratulati...
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about.
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So...
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and ...
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN He would probably be up here right next to me. I would say he would probably be critical because tha...
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN We're at the party, mom. Be proud mom, because I'm proud of you.
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN I'm overwhelmed, I'm really overwhelmed.
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN I have a fine level of recognition in the business and among the acting community now, so I consider...
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support ea...
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN That's what attracted me to it. I wasn't interested in doing it if it was just going to be about try...
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN It was a daunting thing, when they came to my house and offered me the role. I weighed 240 pounds. A...
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN It was all that (drugs and alcohol), yeah. It was anything I could get my hands on ... I liked it al...
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN No one wants to be pretentious about what they do or take it seriously, because that is just weird.
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN Books … they’re kind of a compulsion for me. To find a great bookstore is a great thing.
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or se...
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful ...
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN Creating something is all about problem-solving.
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real li...
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN I loathe my childhood and all that remains of it.
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CAROLE SEYMOUR-JONES I had insecurities and fears like everybody does, and I got over it. But I was interested in the par...
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN In a cool solitude of trees
Where leaves and birds a music spin,
Mind that was weary is at...
WILLIAM KEAN SEYMOUR In a film there a lot of people scheduling, you know.
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN These crimes were part of a cover-up by the defendants. She did it to protect her own stake in her c...
KAREN PATTON SEYMOUR