Harry Dean Stanton Quotes
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The most terrifying thing for most everybody in the whole Western World is to take responsibility for your own life and to experience real freedom.
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My father and mother were not that compatible. I don't think they had a good wedding night, and I was the product of that. We weren't close.
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The band I've played with for 10 or 12 years now, we've been all over, but we mostly play in LA.
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Every actor is a character actor.
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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'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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Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance.
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I could have been a lot more famous and played leading men and everything. For whatever reason, I didn't go for it.
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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 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 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'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 received a lot of compliments. People come right up to me on the street. They recognize me.
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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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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 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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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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Casting is a convoluted kind of trip. No one likes to be typed - even if you're a cab driver, or whatever you do.
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For a musician to be good, he has to have humanity and care about the other guy. And as for blues - in a sense, black people have kept this country alive and given us our entire musical heritage.
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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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The soul is an illusion.
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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 realized early on that if I became an actor, I could play a writer and a sculptor and a painter and be all the things you just don't have time to be in your lifetime. I could get to learn about all of them.
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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.