Memorable Quotes from Harry Dean Stanton

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One Magic Christmas

A Secret About an Invisible Angel

Gideon Can you keep a secret?

Abbie Yeah.

Gideon Well, uh. I'm an angel. A Christmas angel.

Abbie Oh, no you're not. Because my dad told me you can't see angels. They're invisible.

Gideon Well, they're invisible sometimes, but sometimes they have to show up.

Abbie So, what's your name then.

Gideon Gideon.

Abbie Gideon? Was you a good person that died?

Gideon Good person? Well, I was a cow hand... out, out west. And one Christmas, a long, long time ago, I was riding along the Snake River, and I heard this little... kid, uh, yelling to somebody, and uh, so I jumped into the river to save him. Well, I saved him. All right, but I got myself drowned. Because I didn't know how to swim. And um, after that they, they made me a Christmas angel.

Abbie What do Christmas angels do?

Gideon Well, my job is to, every Christmas, have to help one person, that's feeling down, to get into Christmas spirit.

Abbie One person?

Gideon Yeah.

Abbie Could it be my mom? Could you make my mom like Christmas better, Gideon?

Gideon Yeah. I think so, if you'll help me.

Abbie Okay.

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Farewell, My Lovely

Marlowe's Worth Questioned by Billy Rolfe

Billy Rolfe You're not a detective, Marlowe, you're a slot machine. You'll do anything for six bits.

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The Good Life

Contemplating Life and Existence Through a Plant

Gus We got a little plant. I water it every day. Just to keep it alive. Maybe I shouldn't think just because it's still breathing, that it wants to live.

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The Good Life

Unexpected Reminder of Loss in Conversation

Gus Why doesn't Catherine pop the damn popcorn?

Jason Because Catherine died five years ago.

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Repo Man

Debate on Credit and Freedom

Bud Credit is a sacred trust. It's what our free society was founded on! Do you think they give a damn about their bills in Russia? I said, "Do you think they give a damn about their bills in Russia?

[Otto does not answer]

Otto Maddox They don't pay bills in Russia. It's all free.

Bud Free, my ass. What are you, a fuckin Commie?

Otto Maddox No, I ain't no Commie!

Bud I don't want no Commies in my car!... No Christians, either!

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Alien

Discussion of the Alien's Unique Defense Mechanism

Dallas I haven't seen anything like that except molecular acid.

[looks at a pen being dissolved by alien's body fluid]

Brett It must be using it for blood.

Parker It's got a wonderful defense mechanism. You don't dare kill it.

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The Green Mile

A Last Meal Request Before Execution

Brutal Arlen Bitterbuck, you have been condemned to die in the electric chair by a jury of your peers, sentence imposed by a judge in good standing in this state. Do you have anything to say before sentence is carried out?

Toot-Toot Yeah. I want a fried chicken dinner with gravy on the taters, and I want to shit in your hat, and I got to have ] sit on my face cause I'm one horny motherfucker!

[[Mae West; cackles]