Charles Durning Quotes

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.

Charles Durning

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeWorkFearlessBelieveYouWay

You can always wake up on the wrong side of the bed and, boo-hiss, everyone suffers. We can all be temperamental.

John Lydon

Wake UpYouWrongBedAlwaysSide

Mum's cooking is still the best thing. It's very healthy.

Son Heung-min

BestCookingHealthyStillVeryMum

Go out and support your local rock n' roll band.

Steven Van Zandt

SupportGoRockBandOutRoll

I am tired of all this sort of thing called science here... We have spent millions in that sort of thing for the last few years, and it is time it should be stopped.

Simon Cameron

ScienceTimeI AmTiredYearsHere

Electronic Accounting Systems processed my little payrolls like one big payroll. I did the selling, and the people I hired did most of the operations.

Tom Golisano

PeopleAccountingSellingLittleBig

I gave my voice to poetry.

Juan Felipe Herrera

PoetryVoiceGave

Both of my parents worked incredibly hard, and eating out was a treat.

Christina Tosi

ParentsEatingTreatHardOutBoth

People call me a 'model-actress,' when I just never started with that... it's not my story.

Astrid Berges-Frisbey

PeopleMeStoryNeverCallStarted

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.

Pauline Phillips

FireFightPeopleEndUpAshes

The bottom line is, like, one in five stars has at least one planet where life might spring up. That's a fantastically large percentage. That means in our galaxy, there's on the order of tens of billions of Earth-like worlds.

Seth Shostak

LifeStarsSpringGalaxyLineUp

I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.

Rick Springfield

SchoolWritePrettyReadMuch

I'd never seen any television before I started.

Nigel Kneale

TelevisionNeverSeenStartedBefore

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