Dabney Coleman Quotes

Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

It's so easy for all the success in the world to suddenly end, and I'm quite aware of that.

I was also ready to believe, though, that whatever good things I had managed to set upright could topple at any second.

Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.

You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it.

I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability - the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.

I always feel scared and insecure on a film set. I don't know any other way.

Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.

There is no such thing as security. There never has been.

Everything that turned out well for me seems like a fluke. I feel like, at any moment, I could lose everything and be working at Dunkin' Donuts.

Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesn't always hold.

I don't know what's going to happen. I'm flavor of the month at the moment, but somebody else is going to roll around the corner in three months' time. I just want to keep working. I can't stop!

I'm always very scared when I start a movie because I never know if I'm going to be able to do a good job or do a very bad job.

No matter how successful you get in Hollywood, you cannot rest. Your new movie doesn't open well; they're looking for the next person to replace you; it's always something. You never have true peace.

...our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows.

The way to feel safe is never to feel secure.

Nothing is fixed or foolproof; I have no delusion about that.

Anything that's given to you can be taken away from you at any time.

Cling to your insecurity, in this world, it's the only thing you can be sure of.

Anything can go away. There's no such thing as safety and security. You can do things that give you the illusion of safety and security, but there's really no such thing.

Security is elusive. It's impossible. We all die. We all get old. We all get sick. People leave us. People change us. Nothing is secure.

Everyone is a threat, and anyone can be beat at any given moment. No one is invincible.

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

Auditioning for something you already know and love is terrifying.

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.