128 Quotes by Harry Dean Stanton

I watch television. Game shows - I hate the hosts and the people on them, and I love the questions and the answers.

There is no self.

I could have been a lot more famous and played leading men and everything. For whatever reason, I didn't go for it.

My sister tells me I began singing before I could even talk. My first performance was of a song called 'My Blue Heaven,' which I began singing when I was a year and a half.

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.

The first music I remember hearing was the traditional songs of Kentucky - things like 'Roll Along Kentucky Moon.'

Molly Ringwald, she's a natural talent. Every girl in this country related to that girl.

I was in the Pacific. The Pacific Theater, as they say.

I don't recall what the first record I bought was, but I definitely remember hearing Creedence's 'Born on the Bayou' and going out and buying it. The guitar and drums in that band were really good. I loved the words to the title track, and Fogerty's voice sounded just great.