128 Quotes by 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.

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

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

I realized early on that if I became an actor, I could play a writer and a sculptor and a painter and be all the things you just don't have time to be in your lifetime. I could get to learn about all of them.

I was trained on the stage, and I can do stage as well as I can do movies, but I prefer films.

I was in a movie called 'Twister,' and in it, I had to hit a golf ball off of a roof with a driving wood. The guy who owned the place where we shot showed me how to do it, and I hit the ball about 150 yards.

I have nothing to do with anything that happens to me.

I'm very fortunate. I don't think anyone should have a job that they don't really enjoy.

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.