30 Quotes by 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.

I got into it for selfish reasons. To just do my thing. To learn how to do and to just do it. It was just a very exciting idea, of doing that.

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.

I think most directors cast, after a certain period, cast actors because they trust that actor, they know that actor, they know what he can do.

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

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!

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.

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.

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