Charles Durning

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

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Dancing came easy for me. Acting came hard. ↗

— Charles Durning

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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

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I lack confidence as an actor. ↗

— Charles Durning

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

— Charles Durning

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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

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I was born a character actor. ↗

— Charles Durning

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

— Charles Durning

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

— Charles Durning

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

— Charles Durning

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