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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 have a good ear for languages.

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I just wasn't psychologically made to get married or, God forbid, be a father.

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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'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.

Harry Dean Stanton

Singing and acting are actually very similar things. Anyone can sing and anyone can be a film actor. All you have to do is learn.

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I would've preferred to blossom earlier in life.

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The first music I remember hearing was the traditional songs of Kentucky - things like 'Roll Along Kentucky Moon.'

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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 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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I worked with the best directors - Martin Scorsese, John Huston, David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock. Alfred Hitchcock was great.

Harry Dean Stanton

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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All organized religions are basically the same.

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I've been blessed. I've worked with a lot of good people.

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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.

Harry Dean Stanton

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.

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I was in the Pacific. The Pacific Theater, as they say.

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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.

Harry Dean Stanton

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.

Harry Dean Stanton

Every actor is a character actor.

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