Harry Dean Stanton Quotes

I was trained on the stage, and I can do stage as well as I can do movies, but I prefer films.

Harry Dean Stanton

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• I love music, and can dance on the desi beats. Punjabi music is my favourite. I listen to artists like Honey Singh. I love his music. I also love watching Bollywood films.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Music
  • Like
  • Artists

• My only career strategy is to just not do anything that I have to be completely ashamed of afterwards! Whether it's TV or movies, I feel lucky to be working.

  

  Dan Byrd
  • Career
  • Movies
  • Strategy

• Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Way
  • Influence
  • Films

• What is extraordinary about the character of Edna - and I speak as though I am completely outside this character and I am talking to you - I'm, as it were, in the wings, and she's on stage, and every now and then she says something extremely funny, and I stand there and think: 'I wish I'd thought of that.'

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Character
  • Funny
  • Stage

• You will never see me dancing around the trees, chasing a heroine; I will never do films, no matter what the budget, for the heck of it.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Matter
  • Films
  • Dancing

• When I'm on stage, I'm quite over the top - I'm quite flamboyant and camp.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Stage
  • Top
  • Over

• I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Always
  • Movies
  • Caribbean

• I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Myself
  • Stage
  • Off

• It's always weird when you see a movie, and there's no reason for someone to, like, jump on stage and be a singer, and then they just do that... But if it came organically, I would grab that mike and jump on stage for sure.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Movie
  • Always
  • Weird

• I was eight years old when I knew I wanted to be an actress. I slowly started by getting into commercials, and then I was an extra on a TV show. And then the movies happened.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Years
  • Movies
  • Old

• Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Up
  • Film
  • Movies

• I sort of approach wrestling the way Johnny Depp approaches movies. I don't really care necessarily what I'm portraying.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Way
  • Care
  • Movies

• The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Stage
  • Laws
  • Both

• I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Good
  • Know
  • Movies

• I don't need the credits for playing the blues and paying the dues. I've already done it. There are some other things to do here - movies and scores and voice-overs.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Done
  • Movies
  • Need

• There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them from the outside in relation to others in their world.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • World
  • Different
  • Character

• I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better if they cocked you off your axis and you were completely disoriented and you'd really have to rethink everything. Nobody has that experience, actually.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Experience
  • Better
  • Movies

• I did direct two short movies. I learned many things, and one of the things I learned was that I am not a director. It has to be visceral, and it's not for me. I feel much more comfortable acting.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Acting
  • Movies
  • Director

• I was in public school until third or fourth grade, and after that, I was homeschooled. I was homeschooled until I was 14, and then when I was 14, I began attending college. Mom was not playing about that education.

  

  Aldis Hodge
  • School
  • Education
  • College

• People bring to what they see and feel, the inner weather of their souls and complexion of their minds.

  

  Han Suyin
  • People
  • Minds
  • Souls

• The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Earth
  • Magnet
  • Literal

• People give the words life through their own adoration or relationship to the work, and that's true of everything. You can't divorce critical or fan reaction. Once it exists, you forget that the words are arbitrary, or you start to remove value.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • People
  • Giving
  • Divorce

• The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours are destroyed by interference. The eye thus perceives at each point the constituent colour of the image.

  

  Gabriel Lippmann
  • Simple
  • Eye
  • Back

• I was trained on the stage, and I can do stage as well as I can do movies, but I prefer films.

  

  Harry Dean Stanton
  • Movies
  • Stage
  • Films