Harry Dean Stanton Quotes
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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 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'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 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 just wasn't psychologically made to get married or, God forbid, be a father.
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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 am an actor and this is holding the mirror up to nature, as it were.
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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 worked with the best directors - Martin Scorsese, John Huston, David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock. Alfred Hitchcock was great.
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California is full of Mexican culture and Mexican music.
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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'm very fortunate. I don't think anyone should have a job that they don't really enjoy.
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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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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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When man began to think he was a separate person with a separate soul, it created a violent situation.
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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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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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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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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've had chances to record albums, which I haven't done.
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You want people to feel something when you tell a story, whether they feel happy or whether they feel sad.