Harry Dean Stanton Quotes
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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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I just wasn't psychologically made to get married or, God forbid, be a father.
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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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You can do stuff onstage that you can't do offstage. You can be angry as hell and enraged and get away with it onstage, but not off.
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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 hated being typecast in those roles. It was personally limiting, only playing stereotyped heavies. But I got those roles because I was angry, because that's what I projected. I was angry at my mother and father because they didn't get along, angry at the church. On top of that, I had an extreme lack of self-confidence.
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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.
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The soul is an illusion.
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California is full of Mexican culture and Mexican music.
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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 am an actor and this is holding the mirror up to nature, as it were.
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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 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.
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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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I've had chances to record albums, which I haven't done.
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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'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 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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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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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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There is no answer. That's what Buddhism says. The Void, oblivion, no answer. To be in that state is an enlightened state.