I made a picture called Super Mario Bros., and my six-year-old son at the time - he's now 18 - he said, 'Dad I think you're probably a pretty good actor, but why did you play that terrible guy King… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
I was always involved in art and when I went under contract at Warner Bros. at 18, it afforded me the possibility of never having to stop painting, never having to stop taking photographs and so on, and to actually… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
When some people were going around being surf bums and tennis bums, I was being a gallery bum. I really liked galleries. — Dennis Hopper Copy Share
I used to have to wear a gas mask to school when I was a kid because of the dust. I would tell people… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share
I did a video with Mick Jagger down in Rio de Janeiro. But I played a video director, and that's the closest I've gotten… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share
Like all artists, I want to cheat death a little and contribute something to the next generation. — Dennis Hopper Copy Share
I'm just a middle-class farm boy from Dodge City, Kansas. And I always thought that acting was art, writing was art, music was art,… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share
You know, this is such a rich time that we've just been involved in, and there's really a job now for historians. Film is… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share
I am just a middle-class farm boy from Dodge City and my grandparents were wheat farmers. I thought painting, acting, directing and photography were… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share
The inside of the Pentagon is an incredible place and a dramatic set. We do [travel] outside, but the inside workings of the civilian… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share
It's strange: I always try to do the best acting job I can do under the imaginary circumstances of my working position at any… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share
... I'm sort of a nervous person with the camera, so I will just shoot arbitrarily until I can focus and compose something, and… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share
[After Easy Rider] I couldn't get another movie, so I lived in Mexico City for a couple of years. I lived in Paris for… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share
Society loves to put bubbles up there and pop them, and I resent it. I'd rather expose myself myself. — Dennis Hopper Copy Share
My whole written history is one big lie! I mean, I can't even believe my history. — Dennis Hopper Copy Share
Banks wont even loan each other money, everybody's going broke, and here we are inside here, these people are going to be out on… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share
