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Ah just act the way ah feel. (Coleman Dabney)
I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us. (Coleman Dabney)
A lot of what acting is paying attention. (Coleman Dabney)
Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion. (Coleman Dabney)
There are no small parts. Only small actors. (Coleman Dabney)
I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead. [On his college registration experience] (Coleman Dabney)
Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings. (Coleman Dabney)
Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you -- tripping on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as Leif the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, the whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. (Coleman Dabney)
Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me. (Coleman Dabney)
An actress must never lose her ego -- without it she has no talent. (Coleman Dabney)
An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling. (Coleman Dabney)
I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be. (Coleman Dabney)
A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is exactly the same way that a true artist should react to the stage all the time he is in the theater. An actor who is incapable of this feeling will never be a true artist. (Coleman Dabney)
Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it. (Coleman Dabney)
The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation. (Coleman Dabney)
Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors. (Coleman Dabney)
Remember this practical piece of advice: Never come into the theatre with mud on your feet. Leave your dust and dirt outside. Check your little worries, squabbles, petty difficulties with your outside clothing -- all the things that ruin your life and draw your attention away from your art -- at the door. (Coleman Dabney)
Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty. (Coleman Dabney)
Imagination, industry, and intelligence -- the three I s -- are all indispensable to the actress, but of these three the greatest is, without doubt, imagination. (Coleman Dabney)
There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails. (Coleman Dabney)
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors. (Coleman Dabney)
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