Durning Charles Quotes

#1. Thousands of climate scientists agree that global warming is not only the most threatening environmental problem but also one of the greatest challenges facing all of humanity. We must demand a separation between oil and state. We can get off oil and slow global warming.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#2. That place that no one knows about - horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting.

Charles Durning

#3. You make the money in movies and TV so you can do theater. I do a play a year ... somewhere.

Charles Durning

#4. Dancing came easy for me. Acting came hard.

Charles Durning

#5. Sometimes you succeed and sometimes you don't.

Charles Durning

#6. I was born looking older - and I've been aging since I was a teenager.

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#7. There's life alone in duty done, And rest alone in striving.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#8. There are many secrets in us, in the depths of our souls, that we don't want anyone to know about.

Charles Durning

#9. In order for your dreams to come true, you've got to stay awake.

Charles Durning

#10. He pulled her into a tight embrace. There was the sting of tears on her cheeks, but they weren't hers. He kissed the top of her head and murmured something. She didn't hear what he'd said, but that didn't matter. He was alive.
Riley wanted to stay in his arms, but ...

Jana Oliver

#11. The secret of meditation is the art of unlearning. Mind is learning; meditation is unlearning: that is - die constantly to your experience; let it not imprison you; experience becomes a dead weight in the living and flowing, riverlike consciousness.

Rajneesh

#12. A moment or an eternity - did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist.

Ayn Rand

#13. 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

#14. Don't talk about writing. Write. Don't show unfinished work to anyone. Don't show finished work to non-writers. Get your opinions, not from friends and family, but by sending your work out to editors. An endless stream of rejection slips means you need to learn more. So learn more.

Holly Lisle

#15. I was born a character actor.

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#16. 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

#17. To be really sorry for one's errors is like opening the door of Heaven.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#18. 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

#19. 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.

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#20. I lack confidence as an actor.

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#21. 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

#22. That which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.

Rabindranath Tagore

#23. 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

#24. 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.

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#25. I'd like to have a decade of my life back. I dropped into a void for almost a decade.

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#26. If I had my druthers, I would do only stage work.

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#27. Often I think changes within my work have been seen as sudden changes or sharp changes, but for me they're not that sudden. They have been there in the studio, but not so much in public.

Chris Ofili

#28. God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable.

J.I. Packer

#29. I was doing judo before anybody knew it existed in this country.

Charles Durning

#30. Canvas tarpaulin, and a piece of old carpet. I'm not sure that they didn't lay an old wardrobe on top of that, just to

Bill Bryson

#31. I never turned down anything and never argued with any producer or director.

Charles Durning