Harry Dean Stanton Quotes
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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 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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It's just so frustrating when you're in a supporting role because you only get to express a part of yourself.
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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 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 worked with the best directors - Martin Scorsese, John Huston, David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock. Alfred Hitchcock was great.
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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 just wasn't psychologically made to get married or, God forbid, be a father.
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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 could have made it as a singer, but I went with acting - surrendered to it, in a way.
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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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California is full of Mexican culture and Mexican music.
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Fame in itself is, you know... It involves a whole discussion on just that word, fame. It's a power; it's another degree of power, to be famous. I think it's obvious: you have more influence the more well-known you are. And, hopefully, it's righteously used.
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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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What did we play in the Harry Dean Stanton Band? It was old blues and country - all covers. I never wrote anything.
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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'm tired of playing people who are complete washouts and bums. I don't mind waiting for the good ones to come along. It's like age. It's never bothered me. I've even forgot my birthday. Many times I've wondered if I should tell my real age, but now I think it's an honor, to be doing what I'm doing now at my age.
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My sister tells me I began singing before I could even talk. My first performance was of a song called My Blue Heaven, which I began singing when I was a year and a half.
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You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.
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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've had chances to record albums, which I haven't done.
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Silence is the most powerful state.
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I had to decide if I wanted to be a singer or an actor. I was always singing. I thought if I could be an actor, I could do all of it.