"I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'"
-Philip Seymour Hoffman
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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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"I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do."
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"Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself."
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"Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it."
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"Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire."
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"I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that."
-John Keats
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"We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection."
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"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness."
-Dalai Lama
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"It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing."
-David Herbert Lawrence
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