Dean Stockwell Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

And I can't wait to see where the road leads from here.

Going to Peru is, well, if you ever have an opportunity in your life to go there, you should do it because it is absolutely mind boggling.

I started at a very early age in this business and I'm sure most of you have read stories about people who have started as children and ended up in very difficult lives and bad consequences.

It's been a long hard road. Some parts of it were pretty bumpy, but the last few years have been pretty smooth.

It's not the easiest life in the world, but then no life is easy.

My mother was in vaudeville, but after she had her children, she quit working.

So I'm going to go on and work on preserving the ozone layer, encouraging everyone to recycle.

Subsequently, a fellow from Metro Goldwyn Mayer studios saw the play and they asked me to do a screen test and then I was signed to a contract.

That's one great thing about my profession, traveling to locations.

Trivia

In 1989 he won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for "Quantum Leap".

In 1988 he won a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor for "Married To The Mob" and for "Tucker: The Man And His Dream".

In 1959 he won a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, which he shared with co-stars Bradford Dillman and Orson Welles.

Dean: Hollywood is the damnedest business!

Dean: We tend to identify with people who represent our aspirations. And it gives us reassurance in a sense. It gives us, maybe gives us, strength to face our own aloneness.

Dean: I guess people say that actors take a little bit of the part away with them, but if I really was as streetwise and cocky as Al, I'd probably have been a bigger star.

Dean received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on 29th February 1992.

Dean is sometimes credited as Robert Dean Stockwell.

His star sign is pisces.

Dean has two children - Austin (1983) and Sophia (1985).

When asked if there was any information he would like to include to his fans? Dean: I have never been arrested. I am not a dope fiend. I am an artist. I love life, beautiful women, any color of wine, and songs with a backbeat. My close friends are almost without exception artists. This does not necessarily mean entertainers. They are painters, poets, sculptors, musicians--and I value nothing higher than friendship, unless it be humanities' greatest virtue, which is Love.

He was married to Joy Marchenko between 15 December 1981, they divorced in 2004.