Charles Durning (Charles Edward Durning) Quotes

That place that no one knows about - horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting.

Charles Durning

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• Going to rehearsals of school plays got me out of science. It became clear what inspired me and what dampened my spirit. The only other thing I could do at school was trampolining - it didn't seem to have much future in it.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • School
  • Future
  • Science

• Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• Wickets are like wives. You never know what to expect from them.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • You
  • Know
  • Never

• I have a mental coach in Korea, and I talk to her every week before the tournament, during the tournament and try to talk to her and try to get a little bit of the pressure off.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Try
  • Week
  • Pressure

• When my children say, 'In the future, Mummy, will things get better or worse for humanity?' I say: 'Who knows, since Amy Winehouse died. It's all in the air now. Eat your broccoli.'

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Children
  • Future
  • Humanity

• From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is not a private matter. The risk for healthy people is really about your friends and neighbors and fellow travelers.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • People
  • Important
  • Friends

• For me, Melania represents America. We're all reluctantly married to Donald Trump now. She is a vehicle to making fun of him. I can't do a Donald Trump impersonation, but I can impersonate her.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • She
  • America
  • Fun

• I'm a big Otis Redding fan, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye. My hero is David Bowie. But I like the Beatles, the Stones.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Wonder
  • Hero
  • Green

• My parents aren't crazy conservative. They're actually pretty open-minded. But my grandparents are, and where I'm from, East Texas, is the Bible Belt.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Pretty
  • Parents
  • Crazy

• All students should have the opportunity to receive their high school diplomas and be fully prepared for college or the workplace.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • School
  • High
  • Opportunity

• Youth is seen as everything. You don't know anything when you're young. It's great being older, just having a more balanced perspective. I wake up and realise that what seemed to be important last year no longer is. I'm increasingly grateful for every day.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Up
  • Great
  • Important

• The most obvious criticism of aid is its links to rampant corruption. Aid flows destined to help the average African end up supporting bloated bureaucracies in the form of the poor-country governments and donor-funded non-governmental organizations.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Up
  • Country
  • Help

• In cartoons and in improv, anything can happen. You can be any character you want. The rules of real life don't always apply.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Life
  • Real
  • Character

• The important thing is this Just because I'm doing well doesn't mean that they're going to do well if they get HIV. A lot of people have died since I have announced. This disease is not going anywhere.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Important
  • Doing

• I definitely keep myself to myself; I don't really go out. If my friends want to see me, they know to come around to my house.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Friends
  • House
  • Me

• I have very weirdly realistic dreams where it could be real life, except it's not.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Life
  • Real
  • Dreams

• My current motto is to go for it, whatever it is that inspires you.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Inspires
  • Motto

• Having worked in the planning field for over 18 years, I think I would be an asset during the upcoming master plan update.

  

  Paul Williams The Temptations
  • I Think
  • Planning
  • Master

• I think there's something special about getting a moment perfect or near perfect. In a film, you can do that.

  

  Joshua Henry
  • Perfect
  • Film
  • Moment

• Olivia Newton-John was our first choice to play Sandy, but she was nervous about acting, whether she would feel comfortable with us and could pull it off at all.

  

  Randal Kleiser
  • She
  • Play
  • Acting

• They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Acting
  • Same
  • Laws

• From our earliest years, American culture reinforces the notion that we are all completely independent individuals. Sometimes we call it “personal responsibility” and other times we call it “rugged individualism,” which, in and of themselves, are not entirely negative concepts. Taken too far however, these cultural concepts lead us to believe we really are the captains of our own ship, that our primary responsibility is to our own selves, and that we can do this all on our own.

  

  Benjamin L. Corey
  • Believe
  • Responsibility
  • Independent

• Sleep, Nurse of our life, Care’s best reposer, Nature's high'st rapture, and the vision giver.

  

  Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
  • Sleep
  • Vision
  • Rapture

• That place that no one knows about - horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting.

  

  Charles Durning
  • Acting
  • Knows
  • Secret