"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."

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Source : "PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Charles Durning". Playbill On-Line Interview, www.playbill.com. February 22, 2000.

Charles Durning

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“She had for so many years been trying to be like other people, that she was now like nothing in heaven or earth.”
“If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.”
“I don't like to sit around whining about the corporate media, how they control everything, own everything. We already know that.”
“People who are using your product and putting up with all these issues, means that they are not actually the biggest problems.”
“I run so my goals in life will continue to get bigger instead of my belly.”
“Nobody says if you hit No. 2 in the world you have to win all your matches.”
“Lucky Justin Timberlake has Jessica Biel. I think she would just be the coolest girl to hang out with.”
“A lot of things depend on your attitude. If it is good that you seek, it is good that you will find.”

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