Harry Dean Stanton Quotes

I was offered a series by John Carpenter after I did the movie Christine, and I would've been a leading man after that. I would have played a private investigator. And I was offered a great deal - I would be involved in the direction, casting, everything, and whatever. It was whatever an actor wants, and I didn't take it.

Harry Dean Stanton

• Movie
• Christine
• John Carpenter
• Private investigator

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• I love heavy music. I keep Flume nice and melodic, so I save the angry, testosterone-fueled heavy stuff for What So Not. I think it's a good defining thing for the two projects.

  

  Flume
  • Good
  • Music
  • Projects

• Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Life
  • Today
  • Regret

• 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

• In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.

  

  Patrick White
  • Life
  • Literature
  • King

• I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and don't give them a lot of credence.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • People
  • Think
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• The story and the characters of 'Girl Online' are mine.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Girl
  • Story
  • Mine

• My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Time
  • Messages
  • Phone

• I've noticed that a lot of people in film always seem interested in music videos, like it's some, like, really exciting thing they've always wanted to do or something.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Music
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• I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Think
  • Health
  • Better

• This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Life
  • Art
  • Why

• Growing up, I was always wearing my brother's hand-me-downs, so nothing ever fit me. I told myself whenever I have my own money and my own choice with what I get to wear, it's always going to fit me correctly.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Up
  • Money
  • Growing

• The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you're in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life - you write about the mindset you're in at that moment.

  

  The Weeknd
  • People
  • Life
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• I started in action, and then I went to comedy school.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • School
  • Action
  • Comedy

• I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.

  

  Al McGuire
  • College

• If your woman picks your ducks, and she cooks and carries her Bible... now there's the complete package of womanhood.

  

  Phil Robertson
  • Woman
  • Bible
  • Ducks

• It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Teach

• The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.

  

  Leon Edel
  • Life
  • House

• Your dressing area should be your private space.

  

  Kim Cattrall
  • Space

• To know one's self is wisdom, but to know one's neighbor is genius.

  

  Minna Antrim
  • Knowledge
  • Genius
  • Neighbor

• I thought I'd reached the bottom a few times, but then I'd realise there was another 30 floors of despair below that.

  

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• I've never had anyone just stick their hands through my hair. Yet. If they ask, I go, 'OK, you can, if you want to. It's probably just going to feel like most people's.' I take it as a compliment.

  

  Charlie White
  • People
  • Hair

• 'Kung Fu' was never cancelled; I just left. I decided I had enough of it, and I thought I should do a movie right away, because I think when you leave a television series, it's important that you establish the fact that you're a movie actor really quickly, or you might never get that chance.

  

  David Carradine
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  • Movie

• I can't live in a bubble and expect to come and work with Dior or go work on a movie and not have some kind of an evolution within myself and my own thought process and a passion about things or what's happening in the world. All of those things are the elements that make you who you are, and those are the things that sincerely come across in a photo or a commercial or in an interview. That's a constant thing for me.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Movie
  • Passion
  • Evolution

• I was offered a series by John Carpenter after I did the movie Christine, and I would've been a leading man after that. I would have played a private investigator. And I was offered a great deal - I would be involved in the direction, casting, everything, and whatever. It was whatever an actor wants, and I didn't take it.

  

  Harry Dean Stanton
  • Movie
  • Christine
  • John Carpenter