Dabney Coleman

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!

The career doesn't get any easier. A career stays tough.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.