Harry Dean Stanton Quotes

I could have been a lot more famous and played leading men and everything. For whatever reason, I didn't go for it.

Harry Dean Stanton

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• Through the history of rock n' roll, you see lots of bands making the mistake of putting on the tights when they get to arenas. Don't do that.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • History
  • Rock
  • Mistake

• The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Learned
  • Ignorant

• How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Cool
  • Said
  • Sexy

• Boxing is all about how cool and controlled and clear your mind is. Violence only gets in the way of you winning a fight. It's a sport that's more about the strategy than anything. You lose or you win in your head.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Mind
  • Cool
  • Violence

• A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Strong
  • Energy

• I hope to be on 'SNL' as long as they'll let me.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Long
  • Hope
  • Me

• Very, very rare that you do a job knowing that the audience is desperate for you to do that job. Most films you make don't get released, is the fact.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Job
  • You
  • Audience

• Nobody can make a putt that breaks to the right. It's unnatural. Unless you're left-handed, of course. Standing over a putt that breaks to the right can actually make you dizzy. I've long thought that right-breaking putts are a major contributor to mental and physical ill health.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Long
  • Health
  • Thought

• A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • Good
  • Team
  • Football

• We aren't going to let our first investment be the best.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • Best
  • First
  • Investment

• I was brought up a Catholic, so I take no pleasure in guilt.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Up
  • Pleasure
  • Catholic

• Audiences are so much more sophisticated than they've ever been. They expect a lot more. I don't think because it's an hour of your Thursday night rather than an hour and a half of your weekend that you should be gypped at all in quality.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Think
  • Night
  • Quality

• There's something about guitars, they're just so big, you know what I mean? You're just like, 'Ugh!' It just seems so overwhelming. And the ukulele is, like, the opposite of overwhelming.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • You
  • Know
  • Just

• Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

  

  E. B. White
  • Age
  • Problem
  • Myself

• I'm a woman who is very confident with the body, with my body.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Woman
  • Body
  • Confident

• My favorite Starbucks is nice - Omaha Starbucks stores tend to be friendlier than big-city ones, and the baristas are especially lovely at mine - but it's still a Starbucks.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • City
  • Nice
  • Favorite

• The first rappers I ever got into were Wu-Tang, Mobb Deep, and Nas. Those are the guys. Those are the dudes that flipped my wig.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Deep
  • First
  • Wig

• Religiosity distinguishes America from most other Western societies. Americans are also overwhelmingly Christian, which distinguishes them from many non-Western peoples. Their religiosity leads Americans to see the world in terms of good and evil to a much greater extent than most other peoples.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • World
  • Good
  • America

• My native country was full of youthful promise; Europe was rich in the accumulated treasures of age.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Country
  • Age
  • Promise

• Tuscaloosa, Alabama - I love you.

  

  Deontay Wilder

• As he approached his 28th birthday in February 1840, Dickens knew himself to be famous, successful and tired. He needed a rest, and he made up his mind to keep the year free of the pressure of producing monthly installments of yet another long novel.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Up
  • Long
  • Mind

• I guess, when I left university, I liked the idea of being a writer, and I thought then that being a writer really meant that you were a novelist. But if one of the impulses for being a novelist is wanting to be a storyteller, I never had any urge to tell stories.

  

  Geoff Dyer

• There's a picture of the real Coach Gary Gaines in the book and he's sitting in the locker room after a game, and he just looks so much like Billy Bob, that we went to him.

  

  Peter Berg
  • Real
  • Book
  • Game

• I could have been a lot more famous and played leading men and everything. For whatever reason, I didn't go for it.

  

  Harry Dean Stanton
  • Famous
  • Leading men