Harry Dean Stanton
Harry Dean Stanton (July 14, 1926 – September 15, 2017) was an American character actor, musician, and singer.
Quotes
- I play myself all the time... on camera and off. What else can I do?
- Joy, happiness, good, bad, all those terms are meaningless to me. If you think of yourself as a separate soul, you're fucked.
- You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.
- Quoted in The Greatest Quotations of All-Time by Anthony St Peter (2010) p. 155 [1]
- I’m a late bloomer. It’s just a matter of how you evolve; of what your pace is. Hopefully, the older you get the more you grow. So, that has been my speed, the beat of my drum. I march to the beat of a different drum … you’ll pardon me for using this expression.
Quotes about Stanton
- No movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad.
- Roger Ebert, Roger Ebert's Video Companion 1998, ISBN 0836236882