Dabney Quotes & Sayings

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career. — Dabney Coleman

But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting. — Dabney Coleman

I work with Sally and I can see Sally doing that. She is very aggressive. Very fun loving and charming ... and pushy in a very competitive way and a very healthy way and a very good actress. — Dabney Coleman

And it just made me realize again because I have know it for some time, that you never get comfortable in this. No matter who you are. No matter who ... how successful you are. — Dabney Coleman

I was very lucky in as much as I played a lot of tennis. — Dabney Coleman

I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting. — Dabney Coleman

Well Sid Pollack was ... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me. — Dabney Coleman

There can be, therefore, no true education without moral culture, and no true moral culture without Christianity. The very power of the teacher in the school-room is either moral or it is a degrading force. But he can show the child no other moral basis for it than the Bible. Hence my argument is as perfect as clear. The teacher must be Christian. But the American Commonwealth has promised to have no religious character. Then it cannot be teacher. — Robert Dabney

The number of buildings in the city is from 60,000 to 70,000. In 1860, out of 161,000 families only 15,000 occupied entire houses. Nine thousand one hundred and twenty dwellings contained two families each, and 6100 contained three families each. After these come the tenement houses. At present, the number of houses occupied by more than one family is even larger. — James Dabney McCabe

I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do. — Dabney Coleman

There is something about New York City that in and of itself is so theatrical hat I use to think ... I use to feel when I walked out of my apartment on the way to school or anywhere that I was walking out on stage. — Dabney Coleman

The moral judgments and acts of the soul all involve an exercise of reason, so that it is impossible to separate the ethical and intellectual functions. — Robert Lewis Dabney

I predict that the time will come in this once free America when the battle for religious liberty will have to be fought over again, and will probably be lost, because the people are already ignorant of its true basis and conditions. — Robert Dabney

The instructor has to teach history, cosmogony, psychology, ethics, the laws of nations. How can he do it without saying anything favorable or unfavorable about the beliefs of evangelical Christians, Catholics, Socinians, Deists, pantheists, materialists, or fetish worshipers, who all claim equal rights under American institutions? His teaching will indeed be "the play of Hamlet, with the part of Hamlet omitted." — Robert Dabney

William Carlos Williams? "This Is Just to Say" - yes, Dabney had always loved that poem. In the years of Agnes's growing up, a copy of the poem had been taped to the refrigerator door. It was an apology poem - forgive me, they were delicious, so sweet and so cold. Box was holding out the plum and a bottle of chilled Perrier with a silly grin on his face. Celerie — Elin Hilderbrand

A truth is not necessary, because we negatively are not able to conceive the actual existence of the opposite thereof;but a truth is necessary when we positively are able to apprehend that the negation thereof includes an inevitable contradiction. It is not that that we can see how the opposite comes to be true, but it is that the opposite can not possibly be true. — Robert Lewis Dabney

Malek's Law: Any simple idea will be worded in the most complicated way. Every violation of Malek's Law is a victory for education and communication. At the risk of being overly elemental, — Dabney Ewin

He that is not with his God is against Him ... Hence, as there cannot be in any soul a non-Christian state which is not anti-Christian, it follows that any training which attempts to be non-Christian is therefore anti-Christian. — Robert Lewis Dabney

To her the world really wasn't just black and white, its shades were in varying shades of gray. Circumstance and experience shaped a person from the moment they were born. Everyone was a complex mix of bad and good. "Is — J.M. Dabney

Agnes like she was a baby bird. Dabney felt a combination of — Elin Hilderbrand

But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something. — Dabney Coleman

Mr. Dabney could write to — Susan Meissner

Every line of true knowledge must find its completeness as it converges on God, just as every beam of daylight leads the eye to the sun. If religion is excluded from our study, every process of thought will be arrested before it reaches its proper goal. The structure of thought must remain a truncated cone, with its proper apex lacking. — Robert Dabney

But movies as much as anything developed what I thought was right and wrong, what was honorable, what wasn't, what was funny what wasn't ... what had some depth to it, what didn't. — Dabney Coleman

It takes a lot of energy to teach. — Dabney Coleman

I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to. — Dabney Coleman

I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City. — Dabney Coleman

To tell you the truth I am hard put to think of anyone who's career was affected significantly by making all those phone calls and I must be wrong. I must be wrong! Because it has just got to pay off! — Dabney Coleman

I desire before I leave the world, as my best legacy to my family,, my serious, solemn advice, to make choice of my God for their God. He has been my father's God, and the God of your Mother's predecessors. I solemnly charge you to make it your first care to seek after peace with God, and being reconciled, to make it your study to please God in all things. — Robert Dabney

But I did make some money doing commercials. I did fourteen in one year. — Dabney Coleman

When I go to where I was getting excellent parts in movies I may have taken a few too soon, too anxious to go back to work and to anxious to make another film and to succeed more. — Dabney Coleman

The career doesn't get any easier. A career stays tough. — Dabney Coleman

The next night I got on an airplane, and flew to New York and looked into acting schools. Four or five acting schools. One of which was the Neighborhood Playhouse, which I started at six months there after. — Dabney Coleman

I have worked with some great directors. — Dabney Coleman

As a moral and social institution, a weekly rest is invaluable. It is a quiet domestic reunion for the bustling sons of toil. It ensures the necessary vacation in those earthly and turbulent anxieties and affections, which would otherwise become inordinate and morbid. It brings around a season of periodical neatness and decency, when the soil of weekly labour is laid aside, and men meet each other amidst the decencies of the sanctuary, and renew their social affections. But above all, a Sabbath (one day of rest in seven) is necessary for man's moral and religious interests. — Robert Dabney

The education of children for God is the most important business done on earth. — R.L. Dabney

I did two or three plays every summer. — Dabney Coleman

No not pigeon holed me as an actor, or as a character, or as to what I could do - but what I would do ... and the fact is the things you don't do are almost as important as as the things that you do. — Dabney Coleman