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.
- Dabney Coleman
New, Next, Which, Airplane
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.
- Dabney Coleman
Doing, Actress, Very, Aggressive
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
Thought, Some, Had, Honorable
I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do.
- Dabney Coleman
Think, I Think, Almost, Almost Anything
I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.
- Dabney Coleman
Money, Career, Say, Extra
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.
- Dabney Coleman
Doing, Think, Very, Staggering
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
Over, Part, Very, Invented
I was very lucky in as much as I played a lot of tennis.
- Dabney Coleman
Lucky, Very, Lot, Tennis
But I did make some money doing commercials. I did fourteen in one year.
- Dabney Coleman
Money, Doing, Some, Fourteen
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!
- Dabney Coleman
Career, Tell, Got, Calls
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.
- Dabney Coleman
City, Use, Theatrical, Apartment
The career doesn't get any easier. A career stays tough.
- Dabney Coleman
Career, Easier, Get, Stays
I did two or three plays every summer.
- Dabney Coleman
Two, Three, Plays, Summer
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
Student, Go, About, Theory
I have worked with some great directors.
- Dabney Coleman
Great, Some, Worked, Directors
I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City.
- Dabney Coleman
City, New, Go, New York City
But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.
- Dabney Coleman
Acting, Hard, Profession, Teaching
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
Fact, Could, Almost, Pigeon
Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
- Dabney Coleman
Me, Most, Would, Influential
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.
- Dabney Coleman
Work, Excellent, May, Anxious
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