Harry Dean Stanton - biography

“I’ve never been ambitious about recording.”

“I took speech training.  I took a few voice lessons in college.”

“California is full of Mexican culture and Mexican music.”

“I’m not really into religion.”

“Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the universe.”

“I like to stay home and watch television.  The Game Show channel, mostly.”

“I play myself all the time, on camera and off.  What else can I do?”

“I sing and play guitar and harmonica.  I’ve been doing it for a long time.”

“But I’m not imaginative.  I couldn’t look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that.”

“I don’t believe in singing lessons.  You can sing or you can’t.”

“I have a good ear for languages.”

“I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.”

“I know little stories that happen to people around me, and I can repeat that in a way that has some color.”

“I really liked the Mariachi singing in Westerns.”

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

“Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance.”

“The band I’ve played with for 10 or 12 years now, we’ve been all over, but we mostly play in LA.”

“You want people to feel something when you tell a story, whether they feel happy or whether they feel sad.”

Harry Dean Stanton has appeared in the following films:
Mark of the Apache (1957)
Revolt at Fort Laramie (1957)
The Proud Rebel (1958)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960)
Hero’s Island (1962)
How the West Was Won (1962)
The Man from the Diners’ Club (1963)
Per un pugno di dollari (1964)
Ride in the Whirlwind (1965)
A Time for Killing (1967)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Day of the Evil Gun (1968)
Kelly’s Heroes (1970)
The Rebel Rousers (1970)
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
Cisco Pike (1972)
Dillinger (1973)
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Zandy’s Bride (1974)
Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
92 in the Shade (1975)
Win, Place or Steal (1975)
Rancho Deluxe (1975)
The Missouri Breaks (1976)
Straight Time (1978)
Renaldo and Clara (1978)
Alien (1979)
The Rose (1979)
Wise Blood (1979)
La Mort en direct (1980)
The Black Marble (1980)
Private Benjamin (1980)
Escape from New York (1981)
One from the Heart (1982)
Young Doctors in Love (1982)
Christine (1983)
Paris, Texas (1984)
Red Dawn (1984)
Repo Man (1984)
Fool for Love (1985)
One Magic Christmas (1985)
UFOria (1985)
Mr. North (1988)
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
Stars and Bars (1988)
Twister (1989)
Dream a Little Dream (1989)
The Fourth War (1990)
Wild at Heart (1990)
Man Trouble (1992)
Blue Tiger (1994)
Never Talk to Strangers (1995)
She’s So Lovely (1997)
Midnight Blue (1997)
Fire Down Below (1997)
A Civil Action (1998)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
The Mighty (1998)
The Green Mile (1999)
The Straight Story (1999)
Ballad of the Nightingale (1999)
The Man Who Cried (2000)
Sand (2000)
The Pledge (2001)
Ginostra (2002)
Sonny (2002)
Anger Management (2003)
Chrystal (2004)
The Wendell Baker Story (2005)
Alpha Dog (2006)
Inland Empire (2006)
Alien Autopsy (2006)
The Good Life (2007)
Being Michael Madsen (2007)
The Open Road (2009)
This Must Be the Place (2011)
Rango (2011)