"That place that no one knows about - horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting."

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Source : "Charles Durning, Prolific Character Actor, Dies at 89" by Robert Berkvist, www.nytimes.com. December 25, 2012.

Charles Durning

#Secret Quotes #Acting Quotes

“In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.”

Source : US News & World Report, February 23, 1987.
“Every word is part of a picture, Every sentence is a picture. All you have to do is link them together.”
“Banks aren't neutral observers, they're ... the people who caused the mess. It's like someone who's wet themselves in a public building insisting they choose which mop the librarian fetches to clear up the puddle.”
“She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of mind where her life was set on such a sure course that the things she read might stop seeming so powerfully like alternate directions for her being.”
“I can be stupid in my lyrics or say whatever I want without having to worry about anybody else's feeling or anybody being embarrassed by it or anything like that.”
“Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.”
“I wonder what it felt to move to a country where you didn't grow up. I had thought about that often since my sister got married. Do you become a character in a story native to that land, or do you, somewhere in your heart, want to return to your homeland.”
“We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.”

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