Top 31 Dabney Coleman Quotes
#1. But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.
Dabney Coleman
#2. Every law that God has given has been for man's benefit. If man breaks it, he is not only rebelling against God; he is hurting himself.
Billy Graham
#3. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. I don't deal with hypotheticals. I deal with reality.
Clarissa Ward
#8. 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
#9. As to whether the depression will come back, it is every depressive's fear.
Sally Brampton
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. Dwellers by the sea are generally superstitious; sailors always are. There is something in the illimitable expanse of sky and water that dilates the imagination.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
#13. I can't imagine children coming out of me," she says suddenly, "only stories.
Sharon Dogar
#14. The brave baring of all the broken in their brokenness can offer the miracle of communion. Never be afraid of being a broken thing.
Ann Voskamp
#15. You can't cry on a diamond's shoulder, and diamonds won't keep you warm at night, but they're sure fun when the sun shines.
Elizabeth Taylor
#16. I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do.
Dabney Coleman
#18. 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
#19. I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.
Dabney Coleman
#20. But I did make some money doing commercials. I did fourteen in one year.
Dabney Coleman
#21. 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
#22. I was very lucky in as much as I played a lot of tennis.
Dabney Coleman
#23. Well Sid Pollack was ... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
Dabney Coleman
#24. 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
#25. The career doesn't get any easier. A career stays tough.
Dabney Coleman
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City.
Dabney Coleman
#30. The only thing I can do is act, but it's not something I even feel comfortable doing. It costs me a lot, because I'm a shy person, even if I don't look it.
Javier Bardem
#31. When a Lover is a Beggar Abject is his Knee. When a Lover is an Owner Different is he ...
Emily Dickinson
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