People know you as an actor, and labels are so comfortable for people. That syndrome is always hard to get past. — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
I had to decide if I wanted to be a singer or an actor. I was always singing. I thought if I… — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
I realized early on that if I became an actor, I could play a writer and a sculptor and a painter and… — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
I think every actor wants to play those big parts. In the very first play I ever did, I remember understanding all… — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
I am an actor and this is holding the mirror up to nature, as it were. — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
Singing and acting are actually very similar things. Anyone can sing and anyone can be a film actor. All you have to… — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
I was trained on the stage, and I can do stage as well as I can do movies, but I prefer films. — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
I think any performing artist can do films, or, as a matter of fact, anybody out there in the street can be… — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
Fame in itself is, you know... It involves a whole discussion on just that word, 'fame.' It's a power; it's another degree of power,… — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
I watch television. Game shows - I hate the hosts and the people on them, and I love the questions and the answers. — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
I never liked being ordered around - which, of course, was an overreaction. I eventually found out that I didn't mind being ordered around… — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I worked with the best directors - Martin Scorsese, John Huston, David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock. Alfred Hitchcock was great. — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
The first film I ever remember - I think my mother took me to it - was called 'She Married Her Boss' with Melvyn… — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When man began to think he was a separate person with a separate soul, it created a violent situation. — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
I was the classic killer. I always played an angry man. I think it was because I used to really be like that -… — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
