Top 30 Charles Durning Quotes
#1. I never turned down anything and never argued with any producer or director.
Charles Durning
#2. Leave the oil in the soil, leave the coal in the hole
Nnimmo Bassey
#3. I was doing judo before anybody knew it existed in this country.
Charles Durning
#5. I'd like to have a decade of my life back. I dropped into a void for almost a decade.
Charles Durning
#6. You're out there on a high wire without a net, and that's the way actors operate. They have to be fearless about how they work and they have to create a life for the audience in 90 minutes and make them believe.
Charles Durning
#7. I think I've done 200 plays and 125 movies, so I've been very lucky to have made a living at acting.
Charles Durning
#8. Of course, I'm not often the top dog, but sometimes it's better not to be top dog, because you last longer. If a movie or play flops, you always blame the lead. They say, 'He couldn't carry it.' They always blame him. But they rarely blame the second or third banana.
Charles Durning
#10. Anything approaching to the free play of the mind is practically unknown amongst us. People cry out against the sinner, yet it is not the sinful but the stupid who are our shame. There is no sin except stupidity.
Oscar Wilde
#11. I went to America in the winter of 1872-73, authorised to secure, if I could, the passage of a bill demonetising silver. It was in the interest of those I represented - the governors of the Bank of England - to have it done. By 1873, gold coins were the only form of coin money.
Ernest Seyd
#12. There's no nobility with war. It's tear-'em-up destruction that leaves you frustrated, bitter and angry ... If you really knew what it was like for an hour, you wouldn't want anyone to go through it.
Charles Durning
#13. Acting is ephemeral. You can't hang it on a wall. You can't throw it off. And you can't bring it out of a closet. It's there one night and it's gone the next, at least with stage acting anyhow.
Charles Durning
#14. If he exalt himself, I humble him if he humble himself, I exalt him: and I always contradict him, till he understands that he is an incomprehensible monster.
Blaise Pascal
#15. I would rather do a play because it's instantaneous. You go on the stage, and you know whether it's happening or not. Somebody asked me 'What is acting?' And I said, 'Acting is listening.' And if you ain't listening, nobody's listening.
Charles Durning
#16. Most men think they are simply here on earth to kill time - and it's killing them.
John Eldredge
#18. Today's business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone's job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop.
Allen Klein
#19. I can't count how many of my friends are in the cemetery at Normandy, the heroes are still there, the real heroes.
Charles Durning
#20. Human beings thrive on action. Stagnation does not wear well with us. We are said to have our origins as hunter-gatherers. We run and we chase. We are problem-solvers. We must be continuously tested and we continuously test ourselves. And it will not end until our lives end because of life itself.
Art Buchwald
#21. What is love after but trusting in the unknown.
Marty Rubin
#22. In order for your dreams to come true, you've got to stay awake.
Charles Durning
#24. There are many secrets in us, in the depths of our souls, that we don't want anyone to know about.
Charles Durning
#25. When someone writes a book review, they obviously already self-identify as a writer. I mean, they are. They're writers, they're critics, and they're writing about a book about a writer who's a critic. So I think it's really hard for people to distance themselves from what they're criticizing.
Chuck Klosterman
#26. I was born looking older - and I've been aging since I was a teenager.
Charles Durning
#29. You make the money in movies and TV so you can do theater. I do a play a year ... somewhere.
Charles Durning
#30. That place that no one knows about - horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting.
Charles Durning
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