Harry Dean Stanton Quotes
-
People know you as an actor, and labels are so comfortable for people. That syndrome is always hard to get past.
-
I just wasn't psychologically made to get married or, God forbid, be a father.
-
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.
-
I watch television. Game shows - I hate the hosts and the people on them, and I love the questions and the answers.
-
I can't stress too much how much Ry Cooder was an influence on me. Having one of the most respected musicians around like my singing really gave me the confidence to do it.
-
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.
-
I worked with the best directors - Martin Scorsese, John Huston, David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock. Alfred Hitchcock was great.
-
I'm just dealing with what's happening, with what is. Joy, happiness, good, bad, all those terms are meaningless to me.
-
Paris, Texas is the first film that I've totally cared about, the first movie I totally wanted to do - and that after 27 years that I considered my prison term.
-
The soul is an illusion.
-
You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.
-
California is full of Mexican culture and Mexican music.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I could have made it as a singer, but I went with acting - surrendered to it, in a way.
-
The void, the concept of nothingness, is terrifying to most people on the planet. And I get anxiety attacks myself. I know the fear of that void. You have to learn to die before you die. You give up, surrender to the void, to nothingness.
-
People kept asking me, 'When are you singing again?' so I kept doing it. It was that simple.
-
It's just so frustrating when you're in a supporting role because you only get to express a part of yourself.
-
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.
-
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.
-
When man began to think he was a separate person with a separate soul, it created a violent situation.
-
There is no answer. That's what Buddhism says. The Void, oblivion, no answer. To be in that state is an enlightened state.
-
I was trained on the stage, and I can do stage as well as I can do movies, but I prefer films.
-
I think every actor wants to play those big parts. In the very first play I ever did, I remember understanding all the characters in it. I always felt I could play anyone.