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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 acting?' And I said, 'Acting is listening.' And if you ain't listening, nobody's listening.


Charles Durning

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CHARLES LAMB We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.
CHARLES LAMB The greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her constant companion hu...
CHARLES COLTON Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.
CHARLES JAMES Pain is life--the sharper, the more evidence of life.
CHARLES LAMB I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
CHARLES DEGAULLE Why did the Clinton Administration wait from 1995 to 1998 to tighten security and bolster counterint...
CHARLES BASS The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the int...
CHARLES SUMNER The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.
CHARLES SUMNER How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of...
CHARLES LINDBERGH We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true,...
CHARLES KINGSLEY Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us from the dead -- fr...
CHARLES KINGSLEY Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message to us from the dead, - fr...
CHARLES KINGSLEY He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.
CHARLES LAMB Borrowers of books --those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creat...
CHARLES LAMB