A biography for Harry Dean Stantonhasn’t been written yet.
“Everything changes every day.”
“I made it a point not to graduate. I thought that was a positive, independent kind of statement.”
“I sang barber shop harmony and sort of got into performing. And it just came naturally. Then, when I was in college after the war, I did a play, 'Pygmalion,' by George Bernard Shaw. And from then on, I knew that's what I wanted to do.”
“I've avoided success artfully.”
“I could have made it as a singer, but I went with acting - surrendered to it, in a way.”
“'Paris, Texas' is the first film that I've totally cared about, the first movie I totally wanted to do - and that after 27 years that I considered my prison term.”
“I used to sing when I was six years old. When the family would leave the house, I'd get up on the stool and sing. 'T for Texas, T for Tenessee, T for Thelma, the gal that made a wreck out of me.' I was in love with my babysitter. She was 18. I was six.”
“Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the universe.”
“There is no self.”
“Silence is the most powerful state.”
“I'm very fortunate. I don't think anyone should have a job that they don't really enjoy.”
“I've been blessed. I've worked with a lot of good people.”
“I was singing the blues when I was six. Kind of sad, eh?”
“I watch television. Game shows - I hate the hosts and the people on them, and I love the questions and the answers.”