Dabney Coleman Quotes

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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• That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.

  

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• It's a massive consumer frustration around the world about how long they have to wait after the U.S. to see television shows and movies. In the U.S., there's the frustration of having to wait a year to watch a movie in the format that you choose.

  

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• A couple of times, I felt like I was cracking and I couldn't go on, and God would put another person in my place to help me.

  

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• The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.

  

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• 3D prefers you to use wider lenses because when things are out of focus, and yet it's in 3D, it bothers you.

  

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• Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.

  

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• I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.

  

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• There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

  

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• I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national.

  

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• I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.

  

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• It was of limited usefulness to head great rallies. The government did not listen, and, soon enough, the tear gas and the muzzles of the guns were turned against the people. The justice of our cries went unrecognized.

  

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• My acting stopped being about disguise and became about truth which suits the camera, so my film career took off when I came out.

  

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• The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.

  

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• ...I will not be a sight gag for anybody. I will not do anything degrading to myself or other fat people.

  

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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
  • Acting
  • Theory
  • Student