Harry Dean Stanton Quotes
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I never liked being ordered around - which, of course, was an overreaction. I eventually found out that I didn't mind being ordered around at all when it was by someone who knew what he was doing.
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I sang barber shop harmony and sort of got into performing. And it just came naturally. Then, when I was in college after the war, I did a play, Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw. And from then on, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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I do all the classics, like Dylan, Kristofferson, Jimmy Reed, Mexican mariachi songs, some jazz songs from the '30s. Cole Porter's 'Begin the Beguine,' that's one of my favorites.
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I'm just dealing with what's happening, with what is. Joy, happiness, good, bad, all those terms are meaningless to me.
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Paris, Texas gave me a chance to play compassion, and I'm spelling that with a capital C.
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I do the same series of five exercises 21 times each day - an ancient Tibetan practice that stimulates your chakras.
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I watch television. Game shows - I hate the hosts and the people on them, and I love the questions and the answers.
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I really liked the Mariachi singing in Westerns.
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I don't recall what the first record I bought was, but I definitely remember hearing Creedence's 'Born on the Bayou' and going out and buying it. The guitar and drums in that band were really good. I loved the words to the title track, and Fogerty's voice sounded just great.
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Paris, Texas is the first film that I've totally cared about, the first movie I totally wanted to do - and that after 27 years that I considered my prison term.
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Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the universe.
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I was the classic killer. I always played an angry man. I think it was because I used to really be like that - I was hostile. And because I had a good sense of theatrical truth, I used my anger and rebelliousness and just went with it. Anger was just a part of me.
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I've passed up opportunities. I've avoided the spotlight. I've never been to Academy Awards, didn't relate to them.
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I'm big into Eastern concepts. The horror of life, the love of children, the whole phantasmagoria - it's all meaningless. Be still, and see what happens. All of life unfolds perfectly. You have to get beyond consciousness.
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I made it a point not to graduate. I thought that was a positive, independent kind of statement.
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I like to stay home and watch television. The Game Show channel, mostly.
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I always had a dramatic flair. I'd like to dress up like a cowboy, play make-believe. But I didn't realize acting was something I had to do until I got to college.
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I've always been a searcher - you know, a hunter. I'm certainly not the only one. They say actors shouldn't get political and everything, but you can't separate yourself. You can't disconnect yourself from anything.
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The first music I remember hearing was the traditional songs of Kentucky - things like 'Roll Along Kentucky Moon.'
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I can't stress too much how much Ry Cooder was an influence on me. Having one of the most respected musicians around like my singing really gave me the confidence to do it.
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My feeling or philosophy is closer to Taoism and Zen Buddhism, 'cause it's the most practical.
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I sing and play guitar and harmonica. I've been doing it for a long time.
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Every actor is a character actor.
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I used to sing when I was six years old. When the family would leave the house, I'd get up on the stool and sing. 'T for Texas, T for Tenessee, T for Thelma, the gal that made a wreck out of me.' I was in love with my babysitter. She was 18. I was six.