American - Actor | July 14, 1926 -
I've had offers that could've made me much richer and much more famous than I am.
Harry Dean Stanton
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I've passed up opportunities. I've avoided the spotlight. I've never been to Academy Awards, didn't relate to them.
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Silence is the most powerful state.
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Sam Shepard is a brilliant writer.
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I never liked being ordered around - which, of course, was an overreaction. I eventually found out that I didn't mind being ordered around at all when it was by someone who knew what he was doing.
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I don't blame anyone but myself for the kind of parts I got. To blame external circumstances is absolute folly.
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I hated being typecast in those roles. It was personally limiting, only playing stereotyped heavies. But I got those roles because I was angry, because that's what I projected. I was angry at my mother and father because they didn't get along, angry at the church. On top of that, I had an extreme lack of self-confidence.
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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 worked with the best directors - Martin Scorsese, John Huston, David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock. Alfred Hitchcock was great.
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I always had a dramatic flair. I'd like to dress up like a cowboy, play make-believe. But I didn't realize acting was something I had to do until I got to college.
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The soul is an illusion.
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I've had chances to record albums, which I haven't done.
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