Top 19 Quotes by Charles Durning

I can't count how many of my friends are in the cemetery at Normandy, the heroes are still there, the real heroes.

Sometimes you succeed and sometimes you don't.

Acting is ephemeral. You can't hang it on a wall. You can't throw it off. And you can't bring it out of a closet. It's there one night and it's gone the next, at least with stage acting anyhow.

You make the money in movies and TV so you can do theater. I do a play a year... somewhere.

I'd like to have a decade of my life back. I dropped into a void for almost a decade.

I lack confidence as an actor.

If I had my druthers, I would do only stage work.

There are many secrets in us, in the depths of our souls, that we don't want anyone to know about.

Dancing came easy for me. Acting came hard.