“Those are the most monotonous fuckin' crickets I ever heard in my life.” — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
People are starved for a way of life - they're hunting for a way to be or to act toward the world. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness.… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
My father had a real short fuse. He had a tough life - had to support his mother and brother at a… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I guess what I like is mostly country & western or else stuff that has a real blues feel to it. — Sam Shepard Copy Share
You can write 16 plays and not make as much money as you did doing one movie. — Sam Shepard Copy Share
It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples… — Sam Shepard Copy Share
Character is an essential tendency. It can be covered up, it can be messed with, it can be screwed around with, but it can't… — Sam Shepard Copy Share
Farm country -- you know, hay, horses, cattle. It's the ideal situation for me. I like the physical endeavors that go with the farm… — Sam Shepard Copy Share
I think comedy's harder to pull off on the screen than on the stage, anyway. Tragedy is easier on the screen... oddly enough. — Sam Shepard Copy Share
I'll develop my own image. I'm an original man. A one and only. I just need some help. — Sam Shepard Copy Share
When I just sit around my house and work, I can work two, three hours, and then I go off and ride a horse… — Sam Shepard Copy Share
