Harry Dean Stanton Quotes
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I made it a point not to graduate. I thought that was a positive, independent kind of statement.
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Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the universe.
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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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Molly Ringwald, she's a natural talent. Every girl in this country related to that girl.
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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.
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I like to stay home and watch television. The Game Show channel, mostly.
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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.
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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 got a pretty iconoclastic attitude about all institutions myself. And I just think the church was corrupted right after Christ was killed.
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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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I'm very fortunate. I don't think anyone should have a job that they don't really enjoy.
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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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But I'm not imaginative. I couldn't look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that.
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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.
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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 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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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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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.
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I'd love to meet Gandhi. And Christ. I'm sure he'd be interesting. And a lot different than a lot of people would think.
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I know little stories that happen to people around me, and I can repeat that in a way that has some color.
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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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I am an actor and this is holding the mirror up to nature, as it were.
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I can't stress too much how much Ry Cooder was an influence on me. Having one of the most respected musicians around like my singing really gave me the confidence to do it.
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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.