Zitat des Tages von Dabney Coleman:
I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do.
The career doesn't get any easier. A career stays tough.
I have worked with some great directors.
I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City.
But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.
It takes a lot of energy to teach.
I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I did two or three plays every summer.
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 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.
But I did make some money doing commercials. I did fourteen in one year.
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.
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!
Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.