Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Of course, I'm not often the top dog, but sometimes it's better not to be top dog, because you last longer. If a movie or play flops, you always blame the lead. They say, 'He couldn't carry it.' They always blame him. But they rarely blame the second or third banana.

Charles Durning's Popular Quotes

I was born looking older... and I've been aging since I was a teenager.

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

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

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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 …

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I would rather do a play because it's instantaneous. You go on the stage, and you know whether it's happening or not. Somebody asked me 'What is acti…

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Dancing came easy for me. Acting came hard.

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

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

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Sometimes you succeed and sometimes you don't.

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