30 Quotes by 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.

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.

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.

Then they made an extra out of me and I stood around in a crowd, but I got paid for an actor job, not an extra. And that was my first part.

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

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

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.

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

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