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

I'm not really into religion.

Harry Dean Stanton

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.

Harry Dean Stanton

I play myself all the time, on camera and off. What else can I do?

Harry Dean Stanton

I know little stories that happen to people around me, and I can repeat that in a way that has some color.

Harry Dean Stanton

People kept asking me, 'When are you singing again?' so I kept doing it. It was that simple.

Harry Dean Stanton

I took speech training. I took a few voice lessons in college.

Harry Dean Stanton

You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.

Harry Dean Stanton

You want people to feel something when you tell a story, whether they feel happy or whether they feel sad.

Harry Dean Stanton

I've never been ambitious about recording.

Harry Dean Stanton

'Pretty In Pink' was a huge hit for me.

Harry Dean Stanton

I was the classic killer. I always played an angry man. I think it was because I used to really be like that - I was hostile. And because I had a good sense of theatrical truth, I used my anger and rebelliousness and just went with it. Anger was just a part of me.

Harry Dean Stanton

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.

Harry Dean Stanton

I am not into any religions. I have been mostly influenced by Eastern religions - Taoism, the essence of Hinduism and Buddhism. But my belief is not having any beliefs.

Harry Dean Stanton

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.

Harry Dean Stanton

I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't.

Harry Dean Stanton

I've received a lot of compliments. People come right up to me on the street. They recognize me.

Harry Dean Stanton

You get older. In the end, you end up accepting everything in your life - suffering, horror, love, loss, hate - all of it.

Harry Dean Stanton

I've had offers that could've made me much richer and much more famous than I am.

Harry Dean Stanton

I like to stay home and watch television. The Game Show channel, mostly.

Harry Dean Stanton

The soul is an illusion.

Harry Dean Stanton

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.

Harry Dean Stanton

The band I've played with for 10 or 12 years now, we've been all over, but we mostly play in LA.

Harry Dean Stanton

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.

Harry Dean Stanton

I'd love to meet Gandhi. And Christ. I'm sure he'd be interesting. And a lot different than a lot of people would think.

Harry Dean Stanton

I've passed up opportunities. I've avoided the spotlight. I've never been to Academy Awards, didn't relate to them.

Harry Dean Stanton

I sing and play guitar and harmonica. I've been doing it for a long time.

Harry Dean Stanton

I'm just dealing with what's happening, with what is. Joy, happiness, good, bad, all those terms are meaningless to me.

Harry Dean Stanton

I change every day. I'm still changing.

Harry Dean Stanton

Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance.

Harry Dean Stanton

I really liked the Mariachi singing in Westerns.

Harry Dean Stanton

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.

Harry Dean Stanton

But I'm not imaginative. I couldn't look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that.

Harry Dean Stanton

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.

Harry Dean Stanton

I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

Harry Dean Stanton

What did we play in the Harry Dean Stanton Band? It was old blues and country - all covers. I never wrote anything.

Harry Dean Stanton

California is full of Mexican culture and Mexican music.

Harry Dean Stanton