Dabney Wharton Coleman Quotes

• 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.

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

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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!

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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.

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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.

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• The career doesn’t get any easier. A career stays tough.

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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.

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• It takes a lot of energy to teach.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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• I did two or three plays every summer.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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Dabney Wharton Coleman (21)

Birth:	3rd January, 1932
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

Dabney Wharton Coleman was born in Austin, Texas. He is an American actor best known for roles in the films 9 to 5, Cloak & Dagger, Tootsie, WarGames, You've Got Mail and on TV as Louis "The Commodore" Kaestner in HBO's Boardwalk Empire and the voice of Principal Prickly in the animated series Recess. He entered the Virginia Military Institute in 1949, then studied law at the University of Texas before turning to acting. He received his first Emmy nomination for his lead role in the critically acclaimed, though short-lived, TV series Buffalo Bill. In 1987, he received an Emmy Award for his role in the TV movie Sworn to Silence.

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