I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
Harry Dean Stanton
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.
I'm not really into religion.
My feeling or philosophy is closer to Taoism and Zen Buddhism, 'cause it's the most practical.
I've received a lot of compliments. People come right up to me on the street. They recognize me.
When man began to think he was a separate person with a separate soul, it created a violent situation.
Everything changes every day.
I do the same series of five exercises 21 times each day - an ancient Tibetan practice that stimulates your chakras.
I'm big into Eastern concepts. The horror of life, the love of children, the whole phantasmagoria - it's all meaningless. Be still, and see what happens. All of life unfolds perfectly. You have to get beyond consciousness.
I'd love to meet Gandhi. And Christ. I'm sure he'd be interesting. And a lot different than a lot of people would think.
'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.
You get older. In the end, you end up accepting everything in your life - suffering, horror, love, loss, hate - all of it.
'Alien?' Oh, yeah. I still get fanmail almost every week, pictures from all over the world on that movie. That's one of the most popular films I've done.
Do nothing. Do nothing. Let it happen. Don't try.
What did we play in the Harry Dean Stanton Band? It was old blues and country - all covers. I never wrote anything.
All organized religions are basically the same.
'Pretty In Pink' was a huge hit for me.
People kept asking me, 'When are you singing again?' so I kept doing it. It was that simple.
I watch television. Game shows - I hate the hosts and the people on them, and I love the questions and the answers.
A friend is somebody who doesn't lie.
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 don't blame anyone but myself for the kind of parts I got. To blame external circumstances is absolute folly.
The most terrifying thing for most everybody in the whole Western World is to take responsibility for your own life and to experience real freedom.
Study up on the Eastern religions. They're the only ones that are realistic. There's no answer, see.
I'm just dealing with what's happening, with what is. Joy, happiness, good, bad, all those terms are meaningless to me.
Silence is the most powerful state.
I am not into any religions. I have been mostly influenced by Eastern religions - Taoism, the essence of Hinduism and Buddhism. But my belief is not having any beliefs.
I'm tired of playing people who are complete washouts and bums. I don't mind waiting for the good ones to come along. It's like age. It's never bothered me. I've even forgot my birthday. Many times I've wondered if I should tell my real age, but now I think it's an honor, to be doing what I'm doing now at my age.
I've passed up opportunities. I've avoided the spotlight. I've never been to Academy Awards, didn't relate to them.
Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the universe.
I made it a point not to graduate. I thought that was a positive, independent kind of statement.
There is no answer. That's what Buddhism says. The Void, oblivion, no answer. To be in that state is an enlightened state.
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 like to watch 'Paris, Texas,' but I have no desire to see it. I did it.
You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.
I play myself all the time, on camera and off. What else can I do?
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.
My favorite films are 'Paris, Texas' and 'Repo Man.'
I was the classic killer. I always played an angry man. I think it was because I used to really be like that - I was hostile. And because I had a good sense of theatrical truth, I used my anger and rebelliousness and just went with it. Anger was just a part of me.
I never liked being ordered around - which, of course, was an overreaction. I eventually found out that I didn't mind being ordered around at all when it was by someone who knew what he was doing.
I hated being typecast in those roles. It was personally limiting, only playing stereotyped heavies. But I got those roles because I was angry, because that's what I projected. I was angry at my mother and father because they didn't get along, angry at the church. On top of that, I had an extreme lack of self-confidence.
I sing and play guitar and harmonica. I've been doing it for a long time.
You want people to feel something when you tell a story, whether they feel happy or whether they feel sad.
But I'm not imaginative. I couldn't look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that.
I know little stories that happen to people around me, and I can repeat that in a way that has some color.
California is full of Mexican culture and Mexican music.
I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't.
I have a good ear for languages.
I like to stay home and watch television. The Game Show channel, mostly.
I really liked the Mariachi singing in Westerns.
