Charles Durning (Charles Edward Durning) Quotes
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I don't want to be a grown-up anymore; it's hard!
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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.
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Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.
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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.
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I'm not really into method acting - the way I was taught was the good old-fashioned British way of just doing your research and getting on with it.
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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.
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Creativity may be hard to nurture, but it's easy to thwart.
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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.
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Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
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Doing scripted acting is a challenge to me. I can't remember things too good, so remembering lines is a challenge to your boy.
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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.
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The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.
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I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it.
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As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.
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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.
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People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
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It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
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When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was my goal.
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I definitely want to continue acting and performing.
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I'd love to perform with other actors and act with actors, true actors. I would like to be in a movie and have full room for acting.
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But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love; The years of Heaven with all earth's little pain Make Good Together there we can begin again, In babyhood.
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I'd always avoided stuff like 'Where are they now?' or 'Whatever happened to?' Just 'No thanks, thanks for calling.' You tell me, have you ever seen a 'Whatever happened to' where they seemed anything but pathetic?
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I am a kite in a tornado but I have a long string. There is tension in my line. Somewhere, someone is holding onto the other end and, although it cannot spare me this storm, it will not let me be lost while I regain my strength. It is enough.
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Dancing came easy for me. Acting came hard.
