Harry Dean Stanton Quotes

I think I'm sort of method in a sense, and I enjoy, you know, trying to find that reality in fake emotion.

Modelling is only about the look. In acting, it's the feel that matters.

Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting.

I guess I always leaned to the theatrical.

Singers have a lot in common with actors because you have to dig deep into a song and show the audience what you are feeling as you sing.

When I get in the ring, I get to work very aggressively and solid, whereas with the Lord thing there were a lot of facials and stuff like that.

That's the mark of a really great actor, when he can make you feel the emotion without having to search for it.

I think acting, for me, is about play. It's about time, and it's about feeling, like there's a story to tell and I can tell it through my body and my voice.

It's much easier for me to be silly than it is to be serious on soap opera.

I really sing songs that move me. I'm not in show business. I'm in the communications business. That's what it's for me.

You can watch someone on-stage cry and cry - but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.

As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.

On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny.

Sometimes the writing can be so good that the actor doesn't really have to do anything.

The thing is, I love a great death scene - no good actor doesn't. Sorry, any actor, I should say.

Action is drama. If we cannot make the audience laugh, smile or cry with us, we are not actors.

Acting is real important to me. I love it, and it's something I care about.

Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.

What I really like doing is storytelling, finding the body language that is necessary for the story. And when I'm doing it and it's working, I'm thrilled.

This is going to sound cheesy, but with acting there are so many tools. When you're on camera, you're using all of it. You're using the voice, you're using your body, you're using wardrobe, all of it, but it's funny, once you take all of those things away, you realize how much you rely on the physicality.

If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.

I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that!

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

I just want the actors to put their faith in the language. Just let the words do the work.

If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.