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You can do stuff onstage that you can't do offstage. You can be angry as hell and enraged and get away with it onstage, but not off.
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I made it a point not to graduate. I thought that was a positive, independent kind of statement.
Harry Dean Stanton
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I met Dylan on Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. We buddied around for quite a while after that. We jammed together; he liked my Mexican songs.
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I've worked with some of the best of them. Not just directors like Sam Peckinpah and David Lynch, but writers like Sam Shepard and singers like Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson.
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I don't blame anyone but myself for the kind of parts I got. To blame external circumstances is absolute folly.
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When man began to think he was a separate person with a separate soul, it created a violent situation.
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I am not into any religions. I have been mostly influenced by Eastern religions - Taoism, the essence of Hinduism and Buddhism. But my belief is not having any beliefs.
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You get older. In the end, you end up accepting everything in your life - suffering, horror, love, loss, hate - all of it.
Harry Dean Stanton
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'Alien?' Oh, yeah. I still get fanmail almost every week, pictures from all over the world on that movie. That's one of the most popular films I've done.
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I've received a lot of compliments. People come right up to me on the street. They recognize me.
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People know you as an actor, and labels are so comfortable for people. That syndrome is always hard to get past.
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Molly Ringwald, she's a natural talent. Every girl in this country related to that girl.
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I was in a movie called 'Twister,' and in it, I had to hit a golf ball off of a roof with a driving wood. The guy who owned the place where we shot showed me how to do it, and I hit the ball about 150 yards.
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Singing and acting are actually very similar things. Anyone can sing and anyone can be a film actor. All you have to do is learn.
Harry Dean Stanton
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I just wasn't psychologically made to get married or, God forbid, be a father.
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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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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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But I'm not imaginative. I couldn't look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that.
Harry Dean Stanton -
I think any performing artist can do films, or, as a matter of fact, anybody out there in the street can be a film actor with no experience whatsoever if you've got a good director.
Harry Dean Stanton -
I like to stay home and watch television. The Game Show channel, mostly.
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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've passed up opportunities. I've avoided the spotlight. I've never been to Academy Awards, didn't relate to them.
Harry Dean Stanton -
I worked with the best directors - Martin Scorsese, John Huston, David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock. Alfred Hitchcock was great.
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I hated being typecast in those roles. It was personally limiting, only playing stereotyped heavies. But I got those roles because I was angry, because that's what I projected. I was angry at my mother and father because they didn't get along, angry at the church. On top of that, I had an extreme lack of self-confidence.
Harry Dean Stanton