American - Actor | February 28, 1923 - December 24, 2012
If I had my druthers, I would do only stage work.
Charles Durning
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You make the money in movies and TV so you can do theater. I do a play a year... somewhere.
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I'd like to have a decade of my life back. I dropped into a void for almost a decade.
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I was doing judo before anybody knew it existed in this country.
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You're out there on a high wire without a net, and that's the way actors operate. They have to be fearless about how they work and they have to create a life for the audience in 90 minutes and make them believe.
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Sometimes you succeed and sometimes you don't.
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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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