Charles Durning Quotes

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

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.

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

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

I can't count how many of my friends are in the cemetery at Normandy, the heroes are still there, the real heroes.

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

I lack confidence as an actor.

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

I think I've done 200 plays and 125 movies, so I've been very lucky to have made a living at acting.

I was born a character actor.

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

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

Sometimes you succeed and sometimes you don't.

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

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.

Dancing came easy for me. Acting came hard.

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