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. ”