Harry Dean Stanton Quotes
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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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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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Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the universe.
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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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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've never seen a Western that was really truthful. Most are just morality plays. Good guys and bad guys - and the good guys always win, whereas in reality, most of the sheriffs were as bad as the gangsters they were after.
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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.
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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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I like to stay home and watch television. The Game Show channel, mostly.
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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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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'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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'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 don't blame anyone but myself for the kind of parts I got. To blame external circumstances is absolute folly.
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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'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 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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The soul is an illusion.
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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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I know I've got the ability to bring a sense of menace to the screen. I have that specific competence, and it's generally kept me working.
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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 just wasn't psychologically made to get married or, God forbid, be a father.
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I'm very fortunate. I don't think anyone should have a job that they don't really enjoy.