Quotes by Dabney Coleman - Page 1

It takes a lot of energy to teach.
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Energy
Teach
Teaching
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I did two or three plays every summer.
Dabney Coleman / Actor
Play
Summer
Two
Plays
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I have worked with some great directors.
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The career doesn't get any easier. A career stays tough.
Dabney Coleman / Actor
Careers
Easier
Tough
Stays
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I was very lucky in as much as I played a lot of tennis.
Dabney Coleman / Actor
Lucky
Tennis
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But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.
Dabney Coleman / Actor
Acting
Profession
Teaching
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But I did make some money doing commercials. I did fourteen in one year.
Dabney Coleman / Actor
Fourteen
Commercials
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I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do.
Dabney Coleman / Actor
Acting
Thinking
Almost Anything
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I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.
Dabney Coleman / Actor
Careers
Extras
Hard
Extra
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
Dabney Coleman / Actor
Influential
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I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City.
Dabney Coleman / Actor
Convinced
New York City
Experience City New
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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 / Actor
Acting
Perspective
Students
Theory
Prospective
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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 / Actor
Anxious
Film
May
Succeed
Taken
Parts
Soon
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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 / Actor
Depth
Honorable
Developed
Right And Wrong
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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 / Actor
Aggressive
Charming
Fun
Healthy
Pushy
Way
Actress
Competitive
Healthy Way
Sally
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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 / Actor
Character
Important
Pigeons
Character Me Important
Pigeon
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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 / Actor
Careers
Phone Calls
Phones
Thinking
Calls
Phone
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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 / Actor
New York
Airplane
Flew
Neighborhood
School
Schools
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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 / Actor
New York
New York City
School
Theatrical
Thinking
City New Way
Anywhere
Hat
Walked
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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 / Actor
Humor
Character
Contributing
Guy
Weekend
Funny Humor Character
Realized
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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 / Actor
Beneficial
Concentration
Lines
Relax
Scene
Staggering
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