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 Acting is my connection to the community, with the world at large. I hope what I do benefits the community without being moralizing. As a child, I felt rage against adults who didn`t treat me as a person, adults that were brutalized themselves by having an angry, vindictive God watching them all the time. I come from a broken home and I realize it`s the rule rather than the exception.
I felt very much at home on the stage, more so than off it because I could express everything that I couldn`t express elsewhere -- yes, anger, but also tenderness. It`s not always easy to be as gentle as you wish to be.
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.
I`ve been rather like a cat. I`m finicky and I`ve done a lot of things, and made career choices, missed meetings and so forth that would have made me a much bigger actor, I think. But, by the same token, that would have demanded more of my time, too.
Trivia
1988: Member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival.
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Critic Roger Ebert so admires him that he created the "Stanton-Walsh Rule," which states that "no movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad." Ebert later admitted that Dream a Little Dream (1989), in which Stanton appeared, was a "clear violation" of this rule.
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Had a small role as a jail guard in the 1978 Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong film Up in Smoke (1978), but his scenes were cut.
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He fronts a band called "The Harry Dean Stanton Band" which regularly performs in the Los Angeles area. He sings and plays guitar. The band plays a mix of jazz, pop, and tex-mex styles. The band often plays in Hollywood at `Jack`s Sugar Shack`.
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Lived in Lexington, Kentucky and graduated from Lafayette Senior High School with the class of 1944.
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Prior to 1971, he was credited in films and on TV as Dean Stanton so as to avoid any confusion with character actor Harry Stanton, both of whom would appear together in a 1969 episode of "Petticoat Junction" (1963).
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The name of his musical group was originally "Harry Dean Stanton and the Repo Men".
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Was Best Man at the wedding of Jack Nicholson and Sandra Knight. After their divorce, Nicholson lived for a time with Stanton.
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Was drafted into the Navy in World War II. He was in the Battle of Okinawa.
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Was tied up and pistol-whipped at his home in L.A. after a robbery. The thieves then took off in the actors car, but were soon apprehended after the car was traced by a tracking device. Stanton suffered only minor injuries. [20 January 1996]
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