David Selby quotes

I may have been lucky with some sort of intuition, but I believe in training a great deal. (David Selby)

All I could think of was we were about to start filming for the last final weeks of the TV show and here I am in the hospital, so I missed the final weeks, and a couple days later, sore stomach and all I got on the horse we started filming.

David Selby

I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other.

David Selby

One of the reasons I think Dark Shadows still runs is that it's dependent on nothing else other than a story.

David Selby

When I was younger I decided I'd hop on the train to New York.

David Selby

We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools.

David Selby

I never found it frustrating not speaking.

David Selby

I did a lot of personal appearances because I was under contract to ABC.

David Selby

I don't think they knew exactly where they were going with the character, but they lay those stories out ahead of time, so they had some idea where they wanted it to go.

David Selby

I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through.

David Selby

But I had no idea that they were going to pull the plug so quickly. (David Selby)

The movie wasn't really derived from Dark Shadows - they developed a whole new script for that particular one.

David Selby

When you succeed at creating your own world, whether it's in any realm - like Tolkien was able to do - and people are able to enter that world, it's a special thing.

David Selby

The thing of it is though that's the only way people know you, they see you in that roll and they see you in person and they only know the perception of what you are.

David Selby

When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department, and he encouraged me to take some classes there, which I did.

David Selby

You know... the wonderful thing about Dark Shadows, the thing about going and looking back at it. It was so sucsessful at creating its own world.

David Selby

And I haven't met too many actors along the way that haven't told me how much the show has meant to them. It's one of the reasons they say they are doing what they're doing, today.

David Selby

Oh I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show.

David Selby

The only thing I wish I had kept were all the peace beads, because in the 1960s people made these and hung them at protests and it was a wonderful thing.

David Selby

We would change out of costume, then we would read the next days script.

David Selby

That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done. (David Selby)

Right right, because up to that point I had not been a viewer, and I didn't know alot about the show, it was all new to me and the cast members were wonderful!

David Selby

The movie, if I recall, didn't have to do with the television show because there were concerns from everyone that they didn't want it to be like the TV show.

David Selby

And it was so special, and to tell you the truth that's how I feel about the whole thing, I mean when I meet someone that has watched the show, and it has brought such joy to them, it just makes you feel so good.

David Selby

David Selby

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Occupation: American Actor
Born: February 5, 1941
Quotes count: 24

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