Jack Coleman quote: "I don't want to play earnest. I'd rather play somebody who's kind of sleazy. It's much more fun, especially in a comedy. You don't want to be some earnest guy who's just trying to do the right thing but can't. I want to be doing the wrong thing intentionally."

That's one of the things that I've loved about 'Spider-Man' and Marvel in general. T...
JACK COLEMAN

The whole voiceover world is new and different to me and quite challenging.
JACK COLEMAN

The air is the only place free from prejudice.
BESSIE COLEMAN

Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.&#...
ORNETTE COLEMAN

It just makes that person feel that what his work is is going to be more valid. But who wants to see...
ORNETTE COLEMAN

If you decide you want to be treated good, and you treat someone else good, or you want to learn som...
ORNETTE COLEMAN

I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I fe...
ORNETTE COLEMAN

I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles...
ORNETTE COLEMAN

I mean, if you decided to go out today and get you an instrument and do whatever it is that you do, ...
ORNETTE COLEMAN

I don't really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I'...
ORNETTE COLEMAN

I don't know what they're thinking about. Just because someone says, 'I like what you do...
ORNETTE COLEMAN

I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money....
ORNETTE COLEMAN

After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I ...
ORNETTE COLEMAN

I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to ...
ORNETTE COLEMAN

That's why I haven't been so anxious. But now, lots of people write and say, 'I want to ...
ORNETTE COLEMAN

To me, human existence exists on a multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional level, not just hav...
ORNETTE COLEMAN

That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whe...
ORNETTE COLEMAN

All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elem...
ORNETTE COLEMAN

You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the mu...
ORNETTE COLEMAN

I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smell...
ORNETTE COLEMAN

Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest ...
ORNETTE COLEMAN

Actually, when I was in elementary school, I saw a saxophone. A band came to my school, and I saw th...
ORNETTE COLEMAN

I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you k...
ORNETTE COLEMAN

You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't...
ORNETTE COLEMAN

No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adu...
ORNETTE COLEMAN

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each t...
ORNETTE COLEMAN

I served at the Pentagon and at Fort Leavenworth - my job was video cameraman, and that allowed me t...
CHAD COLEMAN

Let me be clear, the discussions about Social Security are not about the retirement security of thos...
NORM COLEMAN

When I go to where I was getting excellent parts in movies I may have taken a few too soon, too anxi...
DABNEY COLEMAN

Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
DABNEY COLEMAN

The career doesn't get any easier. A career stays tough.
DABNEY COLEMAN

It takes a lot of energy to teach.
DABNEY COLEMAN

I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New Yo...
DABNEY COLEMAN

I was very lucky in as much as I played a lot of tennis.
DABNEY COLEMAN

I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do.
DABNEY COLEMAN

I have worked with some great directors.
DABNEY COLEMAN

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.
DABNEY COLEMAN

I did two or three plays every summer.
DABNEY COLEMAN

But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I inven...
DABNEY COLEMAN

But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.
DABNEY COLEMAN

To tell you the truth I am hard put to think of anyone who's career was affected significantly b...
DABNEY COLEMAN

I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering fo...
DABNEY COLEMAN

I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a pro...
DABNEY COLEMAN

And it just made me realize again because I have know it for some time, that you never get comfortab...
DABNEY COLEMAN

There is something about New York City that in and of itself is so theatrical hat I use to think... ...
DABNEY COLEMAN

The next night I got on an airplane, and flew to New York and looked into acting schools. Four or fi...
DABNEY COLEMAN

But movies as much as anything developed what I thought was right and wrong, what was honorable, wha...
DABNEY COLEMAN

I work with Sally and I can see Sally doing that. She is very aggressive. Very fun loving and charmi...
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 d...
DABNEY COLEMAN

But I did make some money doing commercials. I did fourteen in one year.
DABNEY COLEMAN

I may like L.A., but I want to know when the seasons are.
GARY COLEMAN

I liked 'Diff'rent Strokes' up until about the last three or four years. I was bored.
GARY COLEMAN

I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where ...
GARY COLEMAN

Politics is never about the people. It's about money. And wars. And how many heads you can step ...
GARY COLEMAN

I would not give my first 15 years to my worst enemy.
GARY COLEMAN

I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism...
GARY COLEMAN

I have four strikes against me. I'm black, I'm short, I'm intelligent, and I have a medi...
GARY COLEMAN

Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.
GARY COLEMAN

I suffer a little bit from Napoleonism, if you will.
GARY COLEMAN

I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.
GARY COLEMAN

I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
GARY COLEMAN

I never got the opportunity to be romantic or feel romantic with anyone.
GARY COLEMAN

My slogan is I'm the least qualified guy for the job, but I'd probably do the best job.
GARY COLEMAN

I still have the desire to do the job of acting. It's just a matter of whether I'll be allow...
GARY COLEMAN

I have lifestyle requirements. Photos, meetings, lunches, dinners, facial care, tooth care. It requi...
GARY COLEMAN

I don't have any friends and don't have any intention of making any. People will stab you in...
GARY COLEMAN

I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see t...
GARY COLEMAN

I know the difference between true love and the love of my fans.
GARY COLEMAN

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other va...
COLEMAN DOWELL

I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a ...
BESSIE COLEMAN

I am part of everyone I ever dated on OK Cupid.
SLASH COLEMAN

Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?
SLASH COLEMAN

Love is the bee that carries the pollen from one heart to another.
SLASH COLEMAN

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.
ORNETTE COLEMAN

It is the growling man who lives a dog's life.
COLEMAN COX

It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become s...
COLEMAN DOWELL

Don't spend two dollars to dry clean a shirt. Donate it to the Salvation Army instead. They'll clean...
COLEMAN COX

Keeping your clothes well pressed will keep you from looking hard pressed.
COLEMAN COX

Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.
LANGSTON COLEMAN

Though it's impossible for us to legislate one's thoughts and feelings, we still need things...
JONATHAN COLEMAN

A majority of American citizens are now becoming skeptical of the claim that our carbon footprints, ...
JOHN COLEMAN

You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and b...
GARY COLEMAN

We have to get away from the class warfare and recognize that we are growing jobs by helping small b...
NORM COLEMAN

I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I...
COLEMAN HAWKINS

I decided during my teens that I wasn't going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the...
CY COLEMAN

It was very important. I just wanted to get away from Florida for a little while, to be on my own a ...
ANDRE COLEMAN

It just amazes me. We came in as juniors. To be the first ones to play, we were the first seniors to...
ANDRE COLEMAN

It was a real challenge. It was a fun experience to see what can be done [to improve], but at some p...
ANDRE COLEMAN

It's been pretty fun. Things came pretty slowly [early in the season]. I wasn't used to that fast pa...
ANDRE COLEMAN

The key players are now all in place in Washington and in state governments across America to offici...
JOHN COLEMAN

Those targets are generally what everyone gets in a good year -- not a bad year, not a great year --...
BILL COLEMAN

The difference between what someone is paid and what they think they should be paid is based on diff...
BILL COLEMAN

Scott has the depth of knowledge, experience, and expertise to help the department and our community...
BILL COLEMAN

The results of the survey quantify significant disconnects between employers and employees and provi...
BILL COLEMAN

These are much higher paying jobs than I've been looking at. I've been really looking to find a care...
BILL COLEMAN

Now that I'm nearing the end of my college career I'm looking for jobs. I've noticed this valley doe...
BILL COLEMAN

I was babysitting the night High School Musical premiered last year. I watched with the kids and we ...
MONIQUE COLEMAN

It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming;...
JOHN COLEMAN

It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that lab...
ORNETTE COLEMAN

I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some ...
ORNETTE COLEMAN

Don't sit and wish for some ideal; the grass is not always greener with the big house and cars a...
JONATHAN COLEMAN

Livingstone has a blind spot when it comes to relations with the Jewish community. He has an antipat...
BRIAN COLEMAN

This is the latest anti-Semitic remark by Livingstone, he clearly has a major problem with the Jewis...
BRIAN COLEMAN

His complete failure of judgment and leadership raises serious questions about his suitability for o...
BRIAN COLEMAN

The only rights they have are the ones you give them today. Our right as residents is to expect that...
BRIAN COLEMAN

Our media strategy was twofold: target both the college & minor league baseball fan through strategi...
BRIAN COLEMAN

People like to hold a book in their hand. Print is always the way to go.
BRIAN COLEMAN

The mayor is anti-Semitic and we know that in London.
BRIAN COLEMAN

Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but nobody wants to lift no heavy-ass weights.
RONNIE COLEMAN

You drive, walk, eat, look at television, read, and all the while, beyond you and the cozy circle cr...
COLEMAN DOWELL

He is not a guy you can go up to the plate trying to pull. He throws the ball hard and is somewhat i...
BRENT COLEMAN

Brent told us he was going to dominate (Saturday), and he obviously brought his game face. He was an...
BRENT COLEMAN

We're really starting to bring it together now and it's perfect timing now, because we have Dunedin ...
BRENT COLEMAN

He's got bigger and better things to plan for, like college and his career. I don't want to say he q...
BRENT COLEMAN

They're real big. Even though it's early, it still gets us back in the hunt.
BRAD COLEMAN

It's a good mix of Class AA, A and B teams. And it gives players a chance to develop. The seniors ha...
BRAD COLEMAN

Our kids are real excited. They've had this one circled on the calendar for a while. We know (the Re...
BRAD COLEMAN

Every time we had an opportunity, they would come up with a play to get out of it. CoCo would run ar...
BRAD COLEMAN

I wasn't surprised. I thought it had a good chance this time around. I thought people would vote wit...
BRAD COLEMAN

I think we match up as well as any team in the region against them. When you're playing a good team ...
BRAD COLEMAN

That means no shoulder work, no nothing during the Heritage.
BILLY COLEMAN

It will have a much more pleasing appearance than it has right now. You're going to have nice, neat,...
BILLY COLEMAN

We're going to obviously put a lot of thought into this. You don't want to keep shifting in and out,...
BILLY COLEMAN

Right now, the potential to finish ahead of schedule is still there.
BILLY COLEMAN

Innovative Bank can make or break a district director's goals,
BOB COLEMAN

We don't store it on the property. So, as soon as it comes out of the pipe, it's burned. So, if we h...
BOB COLEMAN

We use it primarily for extremely hot and extremely cold weather to have a buffer. So, in case a pla...
BOB COLEMAN

We put the extra cash into a separate account and use it on renewable (power sources) in Florida.
BOB COLEMAN

If our projected use is different, prices could change. We will look at it again mid-year.
BOB COLEMAN

Center City is dead. I think a lot of people just didn't bother to come in.
BOB COLEMAN

It may never happen over here. I'm not going to worry about something I have no control over. If it ...
BOB COLEMAN

When you've got nothing to offer, what you do is put everything on sale if you want people to come t...
BOB COLEMAN

I was shocked. I never dreamed of this. I can't imagine closing this place. What are the schools goi...
BOB COLEMAN

You cant close this place, ... What will I do for breakfast?
BOB COLEMAN

Since I was the solo artist as well as the writer for the songs, I figured I had enough credits on i...
CY COLEMAN

It is intellectually dishonest to look backwards with all the facts and judge the decisions that wer...
NORM COLEMAN

Her time is about 4.33, which she's capable of.
DAVID COLEMAN

Moses Kiptanui - the 19 year old Kenyan, who turned 20 a few weeks ago...
DAVID COLEMAN

There goes Juantorena down the back straight, opening his legs and showing his class.
DAVID COLEMAN

Morcelli has four fastest 1500-metre times ever. And all those times are at 1500 metres.
DAVID COLEMAN

Being is a fiction invented by those who suffer from becoming.
COLEMAN DOWELL

We need to dream big dreams, propose grandiose means if we are to recapture the excitement, the vibr...
COLEMAN YOUNG

Folks who don't respond to sermons, speeches or even news stories will relate to the power of good m...
ROGER COLEMAN

Our big thing was to stick together as a team. Whether we're down or up, just stay together. Don't b...
DEREK COLEMAN

There is no significant man-made Global Warming underway and the science on which the computer proje...
JOHN COLEMAN

I like to think that my finest hour is still ahead of me, so I can look forward rather than look bac...
JIM COLEMAN

If the finest hour is now, then I'll always be in it.
JIM COLEMAN

You've never lived till you've flown!
BESSIE COLEMAN

I have a little girl myself and I keep and eye out like a hawk for guys like that.
CHRIS COLEMAN

Musicians were living there, but there wasn't a scene before. It's not like the scene is dead here, ...
ANTHONY COLEMAN

You just kind of have to pick up computer skills as you go along; they're not really taught. It hurt...
ADRIAN COLEMAN

When I go out, I use a lip plumper to feel more seductive and feminine.
EVELYN COLEMAN

The Pell Grant is more than a financial aid program for college students in need. It is the right th...
NORM COLEMAN

Now we're the first (Maryland) team in the final game.
MARISSA COLEMAN

[Keith] is really an all-around player. He is probably the best athlete on the team.
COLEMAN SMITH

Then I took 8 years of French Horn, first jazz, and then classical.
JIM COLEMAN

All these ancestors of mine, when they arrived here, there weren't restrictions on them as there are...
JERRY COLEMAN

I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else.
COLEMAN HAWKINS

The Stanford Mansion is certainly the jewel of Sacramento, ... and we're adding it to the crown jewe...
RUTH COLEMAN

We were rightly booed off at halftime. But we did the same at their place as they did to us tonight,...
CHRIS COLEMAN

We were rubbish for 44 minutes. The best thing that could happen to us was that we were booed off. I...
CHRIS COLEMAN

We finished strong last season and can do the same again. We can finish 12th, I think.
CHRIS COLEMAN

We're looking to invest in the summer so that means we can't keep everybody and we want to add quali...
CHRIS COLEMAN

We all have busy lives, and our kids are in 14 sports and some people have two jobs, so it's just ha...
CHRIS COLEMAN

From the city level, the district councils (became) viewed ? I think unfairly ? as a hindrance, and ...
CHRIS COLEMAN

We can't feel safe because we are not safe
CHRIS COLEMAN

He was crap!
CHRIS COLEMAN

He has a lot of the same skills, just isn't as polished and refined at this point.
VAN COLEMAN

Food establishments are often believed by the public to be the source of most fat and grease dischar...
DANA COLEMAN

There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gol...
COLEMAN YOUNG

We knew Villa would come out and try to prove a point. After the result against Chelsea, if we'd hav...
CHRIS COLEMAN

The player has been told he is now forgiven - but a repeat would see him heading for the exit,
CHRIS COLEMAN

I've always been a person who tries to build bridges and not walls. Whether it's my ex-wife ...
CHAD COLEMAN

In the old days there would be a cider barrel.
RALPH COLEMAN

I refused to take no for an answer.
BESSIE COLEMAN

This project kind of blows chunks.
ADRIAN COLEMAN

This is bad. I'm tired, and it's only 10:30.
ADRIAN COLEMAN

I've learned over a period of years there are setbacks when you come up against the immovable ob...
COLEMAN YOUNG

When I first found out, I told the kids we weren't going to run (Saturday night). But Walter Thompso...
COLEMAN BAILEY

I don't think I really know just how cool Satan really was when I was in Junior High School. Now...
JIM COLEMAN

It was a shot in the dark. No smoking gun led us to Danny Rolling.
ALAN COLEMAN

It was so new, I had never heard of DNA other than seeing something in the paper that something is c...
ALAN COLEMAN

If not eliminated, having someone else's DNA other than his would have at least made it highly doubt...
ALAN COLEMAN

I had years of riding experience Western style years ago. So that was an easy adjustment. And I had ...
ALEX COLEMAN

There's a theory of acting that these parts are really all hidden inside you, and just depend on wha...
ALEX COLEMAN

History provides a laboratory in which we see played out the actual, as well as the intended, conseq...
ELIZABETH COLEMAN

They put a pretty good whooping on us the first time we played them. So we'd like to return the favo...
DAN COLEMAN

When I recorded Contra la Puerta, I never really thought out doing the material live. Mostly because...
JIM COLEMAN

The outlook is very good and Ben should be available for selection in three weeks.
PETER COLEMAN

It was a tense match as I always knew it would be,
CHRIS COLEMAN

They could easily hit the city of Cheyenne. They could disable our railway system by using bombs. I ...
DAVE COLEMAN

Despite all the other options out there, the phone is still the most prevalent. One of the reasons f...
GREG COLEMAN

We have about 400 inspectors. Whenever there is a cold spell like this, every available inspector is...
NEILL COLEMAN

I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have.
COLEMAN COX

I wish I would've heard him say it.
ROD COLEMAN

That's what they do. They like to air it out, which is fine with us. Usually when a team throws a lo...
ROD COLEMAN

Man, you've just got to take advantage of any situation that favors you. There's no doubt the guy is...
ROD COLEMAN

I felt like I had to make a statement in a situation like that. It was time to finish them off.
ROD COLEMAN

He just didn't have anybody to throw to because of the coverage,
ROD COLEMAN

The guy was in front of me, and I just didn't want the quarterback to get it out, so I just pushed t...
ROD COLEMAN

I don't want to play earnest. I'd rather play somebody who's kind of sleazy. It's much more fun, especially in a comedy. You don't want to be some earnest guy who's just trying to do the right thing but can't. I want to be doing the wrong thing intentionally.

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Jack Coleman

I don't want to play earnest. I'd rather play somebody who's kind of sleazy. It's much more fun, especially in a comedy. You don't want to be some earnest guy who's just trying to do the right thing but can't. I want to be doing the wrong thing intentionally.

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