Charles Durning (Charles Edward Durning) Quotes

Dancing came easy for me. Acting came hard.

Charles Durning

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• I don't want to be a grown-up anymore; it's hard!

  

  Maddie Hasson
  • Up
  • Want
  • Hard

• The blessings wrestling has given me have allowed me to find some new passions, but it's really hard when you've got that first love, and nothing really replaces it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Hard
  • Wrestling
  • Passions

• Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.

  

  Edie McClurg
  • Acting
  • Profession
  • Singular

• As a former minority leader who became the first Republican Speaker of the House in Florida since Reconstruction, I know that leadership is not an easy task.

  

  Dan Webster
  • House
  • Leadership
  • Easy

• After studying art, I was a painter for a while and was asked to audition for a movie randomly. I hadn't thought of acting before that.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Art
  • Movie
  • Thought

• I got out of grad school in 2000. I was about 26 years old. I've always said that I was late to acting because I didn't really start doing it in a focused way until I was in my early 20s.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • School
  • Acting
  • Start

• Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • Write
  • Hard
  • Yes

• Doing scripted acting is a challenge to me. I can't remember things too good, so remembering lines is a challenge to your boy.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Challenge

• It's not easy to come somewhere new and have to find your place. You might feel someone doesn't like you, or you might need to find new friends. It's not easy, and I don't like this kind of thing. It's not easy, so you want to protect the players who are alone.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Friends
  • Alone
  • Easy

• As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Work
  • Long
  • Acting

• You have to love what you do. And in order to do that, you have to search your soul to find out what it is that you really are about. And then when you find it, if you're lucky enough to be in a position to do what it is that you love, it becomes easy. I'm blessed that I ended up doing exactly what I wanted to do.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • Soul
  • Blessed
  • Easy

• People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • People
  • Great
  • Easy

• When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was my goal.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Movie
  • Goal
  • Acting

• I definitely want to continue acting and performing.

  

  Sabrina Bryan
  • Want
  • Acting
  • Continue

• Wrestling is a hard sport, but it's only a sport.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Hard
  • Wrestling
  • Only

• Nothing is easy, and as far as my modelling career goes, the path to the top has been long and difficult, but that's what makes it special. I always look back to remind myself where I've come from.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Long
  • Career
  • Myself

• I also want to get out there in the world and do some acting and fashion and modeling.

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • World
  • Fashion
  • Acting

• I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Night
  • Day
  • Hard

• This acting was very hard work.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Work
  • Acting
  • Hard Work

• It's really hard in this day and age, with radio and MTV being so consolidated, to get new music out there. I think we've become a really legitimate, viable avenue for getting new music out there.

  

  Josh Schwartz
  • Music
  • Hard
  • Legitimate

• With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Fear
  • Integrity
  • Guilt

• Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Up
  • Music
  • Believe

• I am afraid if the present trend in Vietnam continues that direct confrontation, first of all between Washington and Peking, is inevitable.

  

  U Thant
  • Present
  • Afraid
  • Washington

• Dancing came easy for me. Acting came hard.

  

  Charles Durning
  • Acting
  • Easy
  • Hard