I am still in the process of breaking my writer’s block, and I am still creating easy posts until it completely goes away. Today’s easy post is part of the Movie Wisdom series that I often use to get through such times.
In the past, we have looked at words of wisdom from leading men, leading ladies and character actors. This time, we are exploring the works of one of time all time character actors, Harry Dean Stanton. The Kentucky native has been in some classics.
From How the West Was Won
There ain’t much glory in trompin’ behind a plow.
It don’t pay to eat too much on an empty stomach.
There ain’t much glory in lookin’ at a man with his guts hanging out.
From Cool Hand Luke
Sometimes nothin’ can be a real cool hand.
Things are just never the way they seem.
From Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Comes an age in a man’s life when he don’t wanna spend time figuring what comes next.
From The Godfather: Part II
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it is that you can kill anyone.
Good health is the most important thing. More than success, more than money, more than power.
From The Missouri Breaks
The closer you get to Canada, the more things’ll eat your horse.
From Red Dawn
Far better it is to dare mighty things, than to take rank with those poor, timid spirits who know neither victory nor defeat.
No one can ever go home again.
From Pretty in Pink
If somebody doesn’t believe in me, I can’t believe in them.
If you give off signals that you don’t want to belong, people will make sure that you don’t.
From The Last Temptation of Christ
Change will happen with love, not with killing.
From The Green Mile
People hurt the ones they love.
Sometimes the past just catches up with you, whether you want it to or not.
You can’t hide what’s in your heart.
From Rango
No man can walk out of his own story.
Stay in school, eat your veggies, and burn everything but Shakespeare.
Control the water, and you control everything.
Sometimes you have to dig deep to find what you’re looking for.
It’s the deeds that make the man.
SBI: A Thinning Crowd 