128 Quotes by Harry Dean Stanton

I’ve received a lot of compliments. People come right up to me on the street. They recognize me.

I’ve never been ambitious about recording.

I think I'm blessed with a pretty tough psyche.

The void, the concept of nothingness, is terrifying to most people on the planet. And I get anxiety attacks myself. I know the fear of that void. You have to learn to die before you die. You give up, surrender to the void, to nothingness.

Everything changes every day.

I just wasn't psychologically made to get married or, God forbid, be a father.

I like to do nothing.

You get older. In the end, you end up accepting everything in your life - suffering, horror, love, loss, hate - all of it.

I do all the classics, like Dylan, Kristofferson, Jimmy Reed, Mexican mariachi songs, some jazz songs from the '30s. Cole Porter's 'Begin the Beguine,' that's one of my favorites.