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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.

— Dabney Coleman character

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.

— Dabney Coleman art

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.

— Dabney Coleman humor

But movies as much as anything developed what I thought was right and wrong, what was honorable, what wasn't, what was funny what wasn't... what had some depth to it, what didn't.

— Dabney Coleman funny

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.

— Dabney Coleman courage

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.

— Dabney Coleman work

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.

— Dabney Coleman art

I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to.

— Dabney Coleman self

But I did make some money doing commercials. I did fourteen in one year.

— Dabney Coleman money

But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.

— Dabney Coleman teaching

I did two or three plays every summer.

— Dabney Coleman summer

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

— Dabney Coleman money

I have worked with some great directors.

— Dabney Coleman work

I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do.

— Dabney Coleman you

I was very lucky in as much as I played a lot of tennis.

— Dabney Coleman luck

I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City.

— Dabney Coleman experience

It takes a lot of energy to teach.

— Dabney Coleman energy

The career doesn't get any easier. A career stays tough.

— Dabney Coleman care

Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.

— Dabney Coleman

And it just made me realize again because I have know it for some time, that you never get comfortable in this. No matter who you are. No matter who... how successful you are.

— Dabney Coleman success

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!

— Dabney Coleman truth

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.

— Dabney Coleman art

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 dont do are almost as important as as the things that you do.

— Dabney Coleman character

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