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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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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Molly Ringwald, she's a natural talent. Every girl in this country related to that girl.
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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'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've received a lot of compliments. People come right up to me on the street. They recognize me.
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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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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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'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 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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The soul is an illusion.
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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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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 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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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 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 just wasn't psychologically made to get married or, God forbid, be a father.
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I like to stay home and watch television. The Game Show channel, mostly.
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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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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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When man began to think he was a separate person with a separate soul, it created a violent situation.
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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 watch television. Game shows - I hate the hosts and the people on them, and I love the questions and the answers.