Charles Durning (Charles Edward Durning) Quotes

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

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• My grandma told me never, ever, ever to use soap on my face. But I do use lotion.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Me
  • Never
  • Face

• I said that when I establish myself as an artist that can do pretty much anything I want to do in music, I'm going to make a country album.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Country
  • Pretty

• The Railway Man was a particularly intense and immersive experience. I definitely got carried away. I lost about 35 pounds. I really was incredibly skinny and also quite unwell while we were filming. It wasn't very healthy. I don't recommend it. But then also doing the torture scenes, the water boarding stuff, there wasn't really any other way just to do it really.

  

  Jeremy Irvine
  • Experience
  • Man
  • Intense

• To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Honest
  • Human being
  • Best Effort

• We all have views on what our Irishness means to us. Two members of the band were born in England and were raised in the Protestant faith. Bono's mother was Protestant and his father was Catholic. I was brought up Catholic. U2 are a living example of the kind of unity of faith and tradition that is possible in Northern Ireland.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Catholic
  • Tradition
  • England

• As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Thing
  • Rule
  • Bizarre

• It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting.

  

  Steve Buscemi
  • Acting
  • Year
  • High School

• The only acceptable recipients of money from the GAA are administrators, coaches, security, bar and catering staff, hawkers, programme sellers, pirates, general scavengers, some managers... but no players. Stalin or Fidel Castro would love the way the GAA has and is being run. Even if something is wrong nobody questions it.

  

  Colm O'Rourke
  • Money
  • GAA
  • No Players

• I've had one motto which I've always lived by: dignity, always dignity.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Dignity
  • Lived
  • Motto

• I don't really pay too much attention to designers, I know what I like and I just try to find it, and I always try to find a cheaper deal because I have a tendency to be a cheapskate sometimes.

  

  Bethany Cosentino
  • Deal
  • Tendency
  • Designers

• We feel unbeatable at Ewood Park - even when we play away

  

  David Bentley
  • Play
  • Away
  • Unbeatable

• I've been busy with a long memorandum about the whole of our central Arabian relations, which I've just finished. It will now go to all the High and Mighty in every part. One can't do much more than sit and record if one is of my sex, devil take it; one can get the things recorded in the right way and that means, I hope, that unconsciously people will judge events as you think they ought to be judged. But it's small change for doing things, very small change I feel at times.

  

  Gertrude Bell
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mean

• ...our progenitors, the kings of England, have before these times been lords of the English sea on every side...and it would very much grieve us if in this kind of defence our royal honour should be lost.

  

  Edward III of England
  • England
  • Kings
  • Defence

• The most important thing is that you honor that musical integrity, whether you make music that sounds like ABBA or you make music that sounds like Void.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Music
  • Integrity
  • Void

• People can be successful for a short period of time, but only a handful of people are successful for decades.

  

  Michelle Wolf
  • People
  • Period
  • Successful

• I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic.

  

  Mitch Daniels
  • Decades
  • Arithmetic
  • Origins

• There is nothing that has caused me to meditate more on Plato's secrecy and sphinx-like nature, than the happily preserved petit fait that under the pillow of his death-bed there was found no 'Bible,' nor anything Egyptian, Pythagorean, or Platonic - but a book of Aristophanes. How could even Plato have endured life - a Greek life which he repudiated - without an Aristophanes!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Bible
  • Greek
  • Meditate

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

  

  Charles Durning
  • Void
  • Decades