Burden Quote by Philip Seymour Hoffman

“When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate.”

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To act well isn't an easy thing.

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I don't want to repeat myself.

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Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.

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I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting.

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I was a breed of people who aren't capable of doing anything, really. At college I began to get the idea that being macho…

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I would definitely say pleasure is not happiness. Because I think I kill pleasure. Like I take too much of it in, and therefore…

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Creating anything is hard.

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For me, acting is torturous, and it's torturous because you know it's a beautiful thing. I was young once, and I said, that's beautiful…

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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…

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In a film there a lot of people scheduling, you know.

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With those who are willing to join, let us cooperate to reduce the burden of arms, to strengthen the structure of peace, to lift…

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And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often…

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Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts…

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It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it…

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I've always liked artists like Chris Burden, who would take performances, put them in galleries, and then do things that were on the edge.

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Our office...subjects us to great burdens and labors, dangers and temptations, with little reward or gratitude from the world. But Christ himself will be…

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