Charles Durning (Charles Edward Durning) Quotes

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

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• In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.

  

  Iain Banks
  • You
  • Politics
  • Disagree

• It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.

  

  Jack Black
  • Play
  • Tough
  • Transition

• We all have our own purpose in life and I feel very strongly that I have a bigger purpose than giving to just my immediate family and friends.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Life
  • Family
  • Friends

• Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Welfare
  • Liberal
  • Signing

• Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • God
  • Education
  • Evil

• Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Hurt
  • Feel
  • Humiliated

• And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Responsibility
  • Problems

• If I would have won that Olympic gold medal, I would have gotten a job somewhere coaching at a university, and I would be totally content with my life.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Life
  • Job
  • Gold

• The subculture of felons is in great vogue among adolescents. Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and so forth allow us Republicans to say to America's young people, 'We be thugs.' The GOP may capture the youth vote at last.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Great
  • May

• A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.

  

  Iain Glen
  • Experience
  • London
  • Bicycle

• I definitely want to be an inspiration or a role model for all the little girls out there or anyone out there that wants to break stereotypes. I feel like I'm breaking stereotypes with what I'm doing. I'm not the typical fighter, and there's a lot of people out there that won't do something just because they don't fit the stereotype.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Inspiration
  • Role
  • Fighter

• Hanging out with my girlfriends is my sanity saver. We go out for a bad chick flick and dinner. I suggest you break free from the guys, see a really silly, girly movie, and get a little something to eat afterwards. It feels like a treat.

  

  Tamara Taylor
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Free

• It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism. I'm really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Religion
  • Concerned

• Winning excuses everything.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Winning
  • Everything
  • Excuses

• I have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don't know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under my skin, and I need to write about it.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Know
  • Knowing
  • Answers

• What I love about Tadashi is that he isn't a designer that designs only for a double-zero. He designs for double-Ds, you know? Women of all shapes and sizes can wear him.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Know
  • Designer

• I'm boring. My beliefs are neither here nor there.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Boring
  • Here
  • Beliefs

• God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • God
  • History
  • Past

• The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Work
  • Kids
  • American

• South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Small
  • Bitter
  • Africa

• For me, most of the anxiety and difficulty of writing takes place in the act of not writing. It's the procrastination, the thinking about writing that's difficult.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Anxiety

• Music can speak louder than words, and I will use my music to speak out on behalf of children everywhere.

  

  Judy Collins
  • Children
  • Speak
  • Behalf

• I definitely had a very religious upbringing. My father was just instilling good morals into us at a very young age, and it wasn't super-strict, but it was a loving, warm household.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Good
  • Age
  • Father

• 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
  • Acting
  • Lucky