Harry Dean Stanton
Actor
1926-07-14
Quotes by Harry Dean Stanton
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I grew up Southern Baptist. In the Bible Belt.
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'Paris, Texas' gave me a chance to play compassion, and I'm spelling that with a capital C.
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I do the same series of five exercises 21 times each day - an ancient Tibetan practice that stimulates your chakras.
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I used to sing when I was six years old. When the family would leave the house, I'd get up on the stool and sing. 'T for Texas, T for Tenessee, T for Thelma, the gal that made a wreck out of me.' I was in love with my babysitter. She was 18. I was six.
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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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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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'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.
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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.
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I took speech training. I took a few voice lessons in college.
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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.
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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.
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I really liked the Mariachi singing in Westerns.
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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 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.
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