Dabney Coleman Quotes

I love an acting challenge, and I love getting to sit down with my script and do all my drama work.

Well, with each character that I play in my life as an actor, I try to figure out how to find the challenge.

You can't learn how to act; you can only really learn it through experience and practice and really finding what your voice is and what you want to be as an actor.

Am I a good actor? I don't think about it. But I'm working on it.

Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.

I'm an actor, and I love the art of creating a character.

When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.

In the acting world, you can really only become good by practicing and doing it, and I just think every time you walk onto a set you just become better and better. I think I'm in a totally different space than I was back then on that first movie set.

As an actor, it's amazing to get to create different characters.

Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.

When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.

I'm so into playing different characters, even when I was on Nickelodeon. I just observe.

Anyone who has been given the gift of being opposite an actor who gives and gives, it just makes you better.

My acting career began on the streets of New York. When I was a cop, I played many impressive roles, from derelict to a doctor, and my life often depended on my performance.

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.

I love to do very long and complicated scenes.

Acting is great. You spend your whole life trying to get it right.

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

I love acting classes. I think they're great. It's like working out in the gym. It's a great place to figure out everything that's working and what isn't working.

I'm a classically trained actress, and I have many levels and colors, and 'Ventura Boulevard' is where I am planning to stretch and grow.

Acting has always been very comfortable for me, so it allows me to pay attention to other parts of the process literally while I'm acting.

Preparing for roles sounds so academic, doesn't it? It feels as if you are preparing for an examination! In a creative medium, the preparation is of an entirely different kind, and for me, the ideas flow from the script itself.