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

- Charles Durning

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

- Charles Durning

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

- Charles Durning

Dancing came easy for me. Acting came hard.

- Charles Durning

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…

- Charles Durning

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 …

- Charles Durning

Sometimes you succeed and sometimes you don't.

- Charles Durning

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

- Charles Durning

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

- Charles Durning