“I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.” IfsShouldActingStudentsTheoryPerspective Author:Dabney Coleman
“I work with Sally and I can see Sally doing that. She is very aggressive. Very fun loving and charming... and pushy in a very competitive way and a very healthy way and a very good actress.” WayI CanFunHealthyVery GoodActressesAggressiveCharmingPushyFun Loving Author:Dabney Coleman
“The next night I got on an airplane, and flew to New York and looked into acting schools. Four or five acting schools. One of which was the Neighborhood Playhouse, which I started at six months there after.” SchoolNightNextActingFiveFourNew YorkMonthsSixNeighborhoodAirplaneSix MonthsFlewAeroplanes Author:Dabney Coleman
“But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.” HardActingTeachingProfession Author:Dabney Coleman
“But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something.” LittlesCharacterGuyToughI RealizedWeekendContributing Author:Dabney Coleman
“When I go to where I was getting excellent parts in movies I may have taken a few too soon, too anxious to go back to work and to anxious to make another film and to succeed more.” MayFilmTakenSucceedExcellentAnxiousBack To Work Author:Dabney Coleman
“I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.” I CanHardCareersExtras Author:Dabney Coleman
“I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do.” ThinkingActing Author:Dabney Coleman
“No not pigeon holed me as an actor, or as a character, or as to what I could do - but what I would do... and the fact is the things you don't do are almost as important as as the things that you do.” ImportantCharacterFactsActorsPigeons Author:Dabney Coleman
“There is something about New York City that in and of itself is so theatrical hat I use to think... I use to feel when I walked out of my apartment on the way to school or anywhere that I was walking out on stage.” ThinkingWayFeelsUseSchoolCitiesStageNew YorkWalkingHatsNew York CityApartmentTheatricalWalking Out Author:Dabney Coleman
“To tell you the truth I am hard put to think of anyone who's career was affected significantly by making all those phone calls and I must be wrong. I must be wrong! Because it has just got to pay off!” ThinkingHardPayCareersPhonesAffectedPhone Calls Author:Dabney Coleman
