American - Actor | July 14, 1926 -
The first film I ever remember - I think my mother took me to it - was called 'She Married Her Boss' with Melvyn Douglas.
Harry Dean Stanton
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I was trained on the stage, and I can do stage as well as I can do movies, but I prefer films.
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I have nothing to do with anything that happens to me.
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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.
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I could have been a lot more famous and played leading men and everything. For whatever reason, I didn't go for it.
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I was offered a series by John Carpenter after I did the movie 'Christine,' and I would've been a leading man after that. I would have played a private investigator. And I was offered a great deal - I would be involved in the direction, casting, everything, and whatever. It was whatever an actor wants, and I didn't take it.
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Molly Ringwald, she's a natural talent. Every girl in this country related to that girl.
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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 was in the Pacific. The Pacific Theater, as they say.
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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, to be famous. I think it's obvious: you have more influence the more well-known you are. And, hopefully, it's righteously used.
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I've avoided success artfully.
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I liked 'Repo Man.' Satire.
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