Dabney Coleman Quotes

I'd done stage musicals for quite a few years, starting with 'Grease' in Auckland.

At 17, I became a member of the Boston Repertory Theatre. I had an opportunity pretty quickly and performed with the theater for six years.

My first show in high school was 'The Music Man.' I was a junior. I played Harold Hill. I did the role at the University of Miami, too. I do love that musical. To do it in high school and college and then to do it professionally - I mean, come on!

You couldn't keep me out of the school plays, the song and dance skits.

I did a couple of plays in junior high school, maybe high school, and then I did a play in college.

I had a role in 'Crossroads' when I was about 21, and then I went on to perform in 'Small Change' and then 'Piaf' in the Donmar Warehouse, London, and it was when I was there that some casting directors spotted me.

I wanted to be an actor ever since I got on stage for the first time, aged 13. Before that, I thought I might follow in the medical footsteps of my parents: my father was a doctor, my mother a pharmacist.

My mom took me to see 'Annie' on Broadway when I was little, and I just wanted to be doing what those girls were doing.

Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.

I always assumed I'd spend my life happily performing in artsy-fartsy little theaters.

I used to perform all the time but I haven't performed in New York in a very long time.

In Michigan, if you want to act, it's local theater, it's high school theater and it's going to camp and putting on plays in the summer, and I always loved doing that. There was something that just drew me to it.

I spent a lot of time in the trenches in New York doing a lot of off-off-off Broadway theater.

I did a lot of stage plays and musicals, and my first proper acting job was on 'Holby City' when I was 15.

One of my dreams has always been to be in a Broadway musical.

I had done plays all my life. Many, many, many plays, off-Broadway plays.

My middle daughter is with the Royal Shakespeare Company and was on Broadway several years ago.

I went to Elon University and studied musical theater. I usually did two musicals a year, but I also did a couple of plays. That was sort of always where I felt the most relaxation.

I was a very outgoing guy. I loved roaming around, hanging out with friends. From class 5th, I practised and learnt martial arts for about 7-8 years and have won medals at the national level. Then I trained in dancing on stage. In class 10th, I acted in my first play, and that's when I realised I wanted to become an actor.

I didn't aspire to be on Broadway.

I really would like to be on Broadway someday.

I think I'd really enjoy doing some more theatre, because that's where I started off.

Being on stage at the Soho Theatre is hard to beat.

I am the son of a nurse from Bangalore. I went to St Joseph's but was not made for studies. I did my first play in Class VII and realised that I got a high from the claps of the audience.

In the next five years, I'd absolutely love to do theater. I went to drama school and that's where the focus lies. I'd definitely like to do that before the fear sets in.