Harry Dean Stanton Quotes
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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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I sing and play guitar and harmonica. I've been doing it for a long time.
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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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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 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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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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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'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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Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance.
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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 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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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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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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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 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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Molly Ringwald, she's a natural talent. Every girl in this country related to that girl.
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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'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 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.
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I had opportunities to be a lot more successful, but for some reason or other - the way I was particularly genetically wired - I turned down a lot of opportunities.
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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 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.