Harry Dean Stanton Quotes

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.

Harry Dean Stanton

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• It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

  

  Manly Hall
  • Chaos
  • Step
  • Boredom

• Sometimes it's not even a role that's specifically written for a woman. It could be a role written for a white man or Asian man, or Latino. If it's something that I feel I could do well, I go after it. Especially if it's nothing that has to be gender or race specific, I'm all over it.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Gender

• But, I do think, on a very simplistic level, that we can project onto dogs because they are so innocent. They don't come with a lot of baggage.

  

  Kevin Kline
  • Thinking
  • Dog
  • Innocent

• Studios and networks who ignore either shift - whether the increasing sophistication of storytelling, or the constantly shifting sands of technological advancement - will be left behind.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Ignore
  • Behinds
  • Storytelling

• I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Looks
  • Ego

• I certainly identify with the role of mentor and, to some degree, maybe teacher. I do a lot of work with kids at the Old Vic.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Teacher

• It's going to be hard, because he hasn't played in one year, ... I don't care how good you are, baseball is a game of conditioning and timing. But, knowing him ? he's so strong mentally ? you never know. We'll see what happens. It's going to be very, very interesting to see.

  

  Orlando Cepeda
  • Good
  • Game
  • Strong

• Grandmothers are to life what the Ph.D. is to education. There is nothing you can feel, taste, expect, predict, or want that the grandmothers in your family do not know about in detail.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • Life
  • Family
  • Education

• Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Important
  • Wish

• I understand shipping - you have to expect to pay for the stamps or for the freight company - but what's this handling they always have? How much does handling cost, anyway? I don't want a lot of people handling something I'm going to buy before I get it. How much would it cost if you didn't handle it before you sent it to me?

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Company
  • Doe

• If there is any Arab problem we can solve it inside the Arab League. But we are going to deal with the other side, with the Israelis.... It is not me who will decide who will invite, to speak frankly. It is not me, it is not the Arab side, it is not the Israelis who will decide who will invite.

  

  Yasser Arafat

• The doctrine of Christ crucified is the strength of a Minister. I, for one, would not be without it for all the world.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • World
  • Christ
  • Doctrine

• I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Things
  • Fool
  • Consequence

• Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Life
  • Protect

• But they say if you dream a thing more than once, it's sure to come true.

  

  Walt Disney
  • True
  • Dream
  • Say

• You don't know who you will fall in love with. You just don't. You don't control it. Some people have certain things, like, 'That's what I'm going for,' and I have a subjective version of that. I don't pressure myself … If you fall in love with someone, you want to own them - but really, why would you want that? You want them to be what you love. I'm much too young to even have an answer for that question.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Why
  • Want

• Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes. They have increased the comforts of the middle classes. But they have not yet begun to effect those great changes in human destiny, which it is in their nature and in their futurity to accomplish.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Human being
  • Fortunes
  • Human Destiny

• One of the best things for a woman to hear is that she is sexy.

  

  Scarlett Johansson
  • Woman
  • Hear
  • Best Things

• There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, and fills the inter spaces of the universe. A thought in this substance, Produces the thing that is imaged by the thought. Man can form things in his thought, and by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.

  

  Wallace D. Wattles
  • Thinking
  • Space
  • Universe

• 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.

  

  Harry Dean Stanton
  • Actors
  • Hunter
  • Searcher