Harry Dean Stanton Quotes
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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 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 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 just wasn't psychologically made to get married or, God forbid, be a father.
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I was trained on the stage, and I can do stage as well as I can do movies, but I prefer films.
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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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Molly Ringwald, she's a natural talent. Every girl in this country related to that girl.
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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 worked with the best directors - Martin Scorsese, John Huston, David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock. Alfred Hitchcock was great.
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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 could have made it as a singer, but I went with acting - surrendered to it, in a way.
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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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California is full of Mexican culture and Mexican music.
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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 want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.
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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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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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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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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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I can understand why it takes some people a long time to really be a singer. You have to find out, 'Why am I singing? What am I doing this for?' I do it because I enjoy it, and philosophically, music is a catalyst. It's a refining agent.
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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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You want people to feel something when you tell a story, whether they feel happy or whether they feel sad.
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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.
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People kept asking me, 'When are you singing again?' so I kept doing it. It was that simple.