"You quickly learn that you can work on the technique parts of a character like this and you can start getting a grasp on them. But, the minute you actually start to invest them with some emotional or psychological truth -- meaning creating a certain sense of privacy and investing yourself personally in that -- all that (physical) stuff goes out the window. It's amazing because your impersonation or whatever you're doing, will become awful.

The concentration to do that other work is really what's hard about acting. It's that stuff. So that's really the trick, that's where the practice comes in. You really have to work so hard for so long to allow yourself to live honestly moment to moment and have all those other things happening. And that's where the self-criticism becomes just unbearable. It's just trial and error while you're rehearsing and realizing how difficult it is.

(I felt like) I got "it" -- I was able to freely go for it -- when I was clearest about what I wanted and how to go about getting it, as Truman Capote -- the mindset and the actions. "

-- Philip Seymour Hoffman (pictured right), producer and actor best known for roles in Cold Mountain, Boogie Nights, Twister and The Talented Mr. Ripley, talking about the challenges of playing such a well-known personality as eccentric author Truman Capote (pictured left) in the film Capote.

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