Dabney Coleman Quotes

Anyone who goes on the stage is a show-off, aren't they? Acting's weird.

I love New York; I love the city. It's impossible. It's a theme park of a city, isn't it.

That New York energy, when you've got the benefit of great weather, it really is terrific. You look up at that skyline, and the Empire State Building is literally in your eyesight - there's nothing like that.

Theatricality is a concept. It's not a specific language.

I go down the street thinking, 'Oh my God, I live in New York.' But then I think, 'Oh my God, I'm on Broadway!'

Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.

New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen's stories.

I've lived in London, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, New York, and Turin. But New York is my favorite city. It has so much energy, so much toughness.

Superwoman is more of a performer, which Lilly isn't. Having said that, I guess both of them are completely over the top, dramatic and full of energy.

When I'm in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I'm in a movie.

When you think about Broadway, you think broad and big, but the fact is there are so many plays that are very intimate, but fill a 1,500-seat house. Plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' have deep moments of silence and intimacy to them.

I can't take the theater side out of myself.

I love New York, I love the smell of New York... I love the subway.

I live in New York City, so there's so much stimulation when you walk outside, it does not require a television in the home.

I like to be in New York. Le Corbusier described it in the 1930s as a 'wonderful catastrophe.' It is still a wonderful catastrophe, but inspiring.

The camera lens or the television camera is still just a proscenium arch. And as a great old character actor once said to me, wherever you're acting, you reach up and take hold of the proscenium arch, and you pull it down around your shoulders.

I've always been drawn to city skylines.

The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.

You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors!

I grew up in New York and have lived here all my life. I think it's the best city in the world and can write about it with gusto and fervor and passion.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

I feel real confidence in working on the stage.

Singing and acting on a show is like theater; it doesn't get any better.

Actors die so loud.

My family is very theatrical.