I was very shy, and it was a lot easier for me to communicate if I had a camera between me and other people. — 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
