Harry Dean Stanton Quotes

People know you as an actor, and labels are so comfortable for people. That syndrome is always hard to get past.

Harry Dean Stanton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 14, 1926

Topics

PastPeopleYouKnowActorHard

Most famous stage actors tactfully fade away.

Robert Gottlieb

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When I want to understand a problem, I want to understand it from the ground level.

Matthew Desmond

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It's an honor, when you've been hustling in the business for years, years and years, it doesn't matter when it comes - you're just glad it came.

Angela Robinson

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I wrote a book with my mom and my sister for fun. I had no idea it would be a 'New York Times' bestseller.

Trisha Yearwood

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I want to explore my boundaries. I want to push myself and go right to the edge of what I am capable of. I don't want to ever be comfortable.

Shura

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To be able to work with people who I have respected and admired, to be a part of something like the Cannes Film Festival, is surreal and brilliant.

Luke Evans

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All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.

Lord Alfred Douglas

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Once you sit in front of people and start playing songs, it's all on you. No matter what happens, it's entirely your responsibility the entire time. I like that intensity.

Chris Cornell

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What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.

Chris Marker

HistoryPoliticsMePresentInterest

Denied dancing and musical instruments, slaves expressed a hidden tradition of musicality and poetics by tongue and signal.

David Shields

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I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century.

Christiane Amanpour

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I like the songs that are fun, that aren't gonna change the world - I've some of those - but even something like, 'You Should Be Here,' that was my chance to say, 'Look, this is me, too. I'm just a normal person.'

Cole Swindell

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