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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

Topics: Actor Almost Character Could Fact Important Me Pigeon Things Would You

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

~Dabney Coleman

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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

Topics: Again Because Comfortable Get How Just Know Made Matter Me Never Realize Some Successful Time Who You

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

~Dabney Coleman

Topics: Commercials Did Doing Fourteen Make Money Some Year

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

~Dabney Coleman

Topics: Acting Hard Profession Teaching

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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

Topics: Because Character Contributing Funny Guy Had Humor Invented Little Over Part Playing Realized Something Thing Tough Very Weekend

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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

Topics: Anything Depth Developed Funny Had Honorable Movies Much Right Right And Wrong Some Thought Wrong

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I did two or three plays every summer.

~Dabney Coleman

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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

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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

Topics: About Acting Encourage Go He Prospective Say Second Should Something Student Theory You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: January 3rd, 1932

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