Top 123 Quotes & Sayings by Harry Dean Stanton
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Harry Dean Stanton.
Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the universe.
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.
I do the same series of five exercises 21 times each day - an ancient Tibetan practice that stimulates your chakras.
I was in World War Two at the battle of Okinawa.
You get older. In the end, you end up accepting everything in your life - suffering, horror, love, loss, hate - all of it.
I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
You want people to feel something when you tell a story, whether they feel happy or whether they feel sad.
The soul is an illusion.
I'm big into Eastern concepts. The horror of life, the love of children, the whole phantasmagoria - it's all meaningless. Be still, and see what happens. All of life unfolds perfectly. You have to get beyond consciousness.
I've always been a searcher - you know, a hunter. I'm certainly not the only one. They say actors shouldn't get political and everything, but you can't separate yourself. You can't disconnect yourself from anything.
I play myself all the time, on camera and off. What else can I do?
'Pretty In Pink' was a huge hit for me.
The band I've played with for 10 or 12 years now, we've been all over, but we mostly play in LA.
There is no answer. That's what Buddhism says. The Void, oblivion, no answer. To be in that state is an enlightened state.
I watch television. Game shows - I hate the hosts and the people on them, and I love the questions and the answers.
You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.
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 change every day. I'm still changing.
I like to do nothing.
I know little stories that happen to people around me, and I can repeat that in a way that has some color.
But I'm not imaginative. I couldn't look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that.
The most terrifying thing for most everybody in the whole Western World is to take responsibility for your own life and to experience real freedom.
I've been blessed. I've worked with a lot of good people.
I like to stay home and watch television. The Game Show channel, mostly.
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.
Everything changes every day.
California is full of Mexican culture and Mexican music.
A friend is somebody who doesn't lie.
It's just so frustrating when you're in a supporting role because you only get to express a part of yourself.
I do all the classics, like Dylan, Kristofferson, Jimmy Reed, Mexican mariachi songs, some jazz songs from the '30s. Cole Porter's 'Begin the Beguine,' that's one of my favorites.
Do nothing. Do nothing. Let it happen. Don't try.
I've got a pretty iconoclastic attitude about all institutions myself. And I just think the church was corrupted right after Christ was killed.
I was in a movie called 'Twister,' and in it, I had to hit a golf ball off of a roof with a driving wood. The guy who owned the place where we shot showed me how to do it, and I hit the ball about 150 yards.
What did we play in the Harry Dean Stanton Band? It was old blues and country - all covers. I never wrote anything.
I sing and play guitar and harmonica. I've been doing it for a long time.
I just wasn't psychologically made to get married or, God forbid, be a father.
I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't.
I took speech training. I took a few voice lessons in college.
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.
I've never been ambitious about recording.
'Alien?' Oh, yeah. I still get fanmail almost every week, pictures from all over the world on that movie. That's one of the most popular films I've done.
I'm just dealing with what's happening, with what is. Joy, happiness, good, bad, all those terms are meaningless to me.
I think I'm blessed with a pretty tough psyche.
I'm not really into religion.
I've received a lot of compliments. People come right up to me on the street. They recognize me.
My father and mother were not that compatible. I don't think they had a good wedding night, and I was the product of that. We weren't close.
I really liked the Mariachi singing in Westerns.
I'm very fortunate. I don't think anyone should have a job that they don't really enjoy.
The first music I remember hearing was the traditional songs of Kentucky - things like 'Roll Along Kentucky Moon.'
I have a good ear for languages.
I don't recall what the first record I bought was, but I definitely remember hearing Creedence's 'Born on the Bayou' and going out and buying it. The guitar and drums in that band were really good. I loved the words to the title track, and Fogerty's voice sounded just great.
Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance.
'Paris, Texas' gave me a chance to play compassion, and I'm spelling that with a capital C.
'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.
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.
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.
Nothing is important.
Study up on the Eastern religions. They're the only ones that are realistic. There's no answer, see.
I've never seen a Western that was really truthful. Most are just morality plays. Good guys and bad guys - and the good guys always win, whereas in reality, most of the sheriffs were as bad as the gangsters they were after.
There is no self.
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