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

-- Charles Durning

“I just kind of opened up and said, 'I feel like a rag doll. I have hair and makeup people coming to my house every day and putting me in new, uncomfortable, weird dresses and expensive shoes, and I just shut down and raise my arms up for them to get the dress on, and pout my lips when they need to put the lipstick on.”
“There's only one direction you can coast-downhill.”
“I can stand out the war with any man.”
“I was able to get operated on four days after I was diagnosed. It was just a matter of getting this baseball-sized tumor out of me. I reflect now on how lucky I was to be in the situation where I could get the best possible help and treatment.”
“Once on the streets of New York a woman called the police because her child spoke to me.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“I think filmmakers, in general... There are some awesome, really great filmmakers - but on the whole, filmmakers, actors, I think they are the biggest bunch of whiny, over-paid babies on the planet.”
“Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart. That is where it must be sought. One must follow and understand this fatal game that leads from lucidity in the face of existence to flight from light.”
“I believe it's true that one person can make a difference. But how much more difference 100 people make, or rather 99.”

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