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Dabney Coleman

"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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"It's an acting job - acting natural."

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"Acting with creatures that aren't there is kind like acting with an actor who refuses to come out of his trailer. You still have to go on and do the scene."

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"When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma."

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"We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past."

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"The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel."

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"I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it."

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"Acting is invigorating. But I don't analyse it too much. It's like a dog smelling where it's going to do its toilet in the morning."

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"And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that."

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"I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go."

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"I don't like acting things; I like feeling things."

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Dabney Coleman
"I was very lucky in as much as I played a lot of tennis."

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Dabney Coleman
"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."

Acting

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Dabney Coleman
"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."

Character

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Dabney Coleman
"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."

Time

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Dabney Coleman
"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."

Work

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Dabney Coleman
"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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Dabney Coleman
"I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career."

Money

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

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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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Dabney Coleman
"I did two or three plays every summer."

Summer

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