Charles Durning Quotes

I would rather do a play because it's instantaneous. You go on the stage, and you know whether it's happening or not. Somebody asked me 'What is acting?' And I said, 'Acting is listening.' And if you ain't listening, nobody's listening.

Charles Durning

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 28, 1923 - December 24, 2012

Topics

MeListeningYouActingPlayKnow

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

John Adams

FearFoundationMostGovernments

Nowadays, I only review books I really like. It's cowardly, I know, but I figure it's not my job to make people unhappy. I'll leave that to the professionals.

Meg Rosoff

JobPeopleUnhappyKnowLeaveBooks

My parents came from little, so they made a choice to give a lot: buying turkeys for homeless shelters at Thanksgiving, delivering meals to people in hospices, giving spare change to those asking for it.

Meghan Markle

ChangeParentsPeopleHomeless

And in order to succeed in later life, you need creative skills because look at how fast the world is changing.

Robert Sternberg

LifeCreativeSucceedWorldLook

I am quite miserable because I'm never satisfied with what I've got. You're always looking for that next high, and that is what I would define as happiness.

Simon Cowell

HappinessI AmLookingYouNever

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

Simone Weil

LiveWarPeopleHelpCountryThings

What works for one person's needs is almost always very different from the next.

Tom Rath

PersonAlwaysNextDifferentAlmost

I have the biggest sweet tooth. After the holidays, I gotta start working out.

Devon Werkheiser

SweetStartHolidaysOutSweet Tooth

The Futurists were an art movement in the early 20th century which basically glorified machines and the Industrial Revolution.

Britt Daniel

ArtIndustrial RevolutionRevolution

Free enterprise is essentially a formula not just for wealth creation, but for life satisfaction.

Arthur C. Brooks

LifeFreeWealthSatisfactionJust

So that was Reagan's political problem. As a rancher in California, he was an environmentalist himself. But the President of the United States doesn't control everything that happens in Washington.

Brian Mulroney

ControlPoliticalProblemWashington

I just remember the feeling of being dropped from Island and having our hearts broken. Because we were given a chance to put out an album to the world. We got the chance for people to know who we were. We wanted to make our dreams come true and do hip-hop for a living, but we didn't do it right.

Prodigy

DreamsBrokenPeopleWorldChance

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