When I first started, I didn't really know how to structure a play. I could write dialogue, but I just sort of… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man. The… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
My son, Walker, has a band called The Dust Busters. You know, he plays banjo, fiddle, guitar, and mandolin, so a lot… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
We're being sold a brand new idea of patriotism. It never occurred to me that patriotism had to be advertised. Patriotism is… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I've had it up to my ears with the personal mythology. It's getting kind of personally sickening. The personal stuff just turns… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
All that stuff about my father and my childhood is interesting up to a certain point, but I kind of capsized with… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Writing for theatre is certainly different to writing an essay or any other kind of fiction or prose: it's physical. You're also… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
When you see the way things deteriorate before your very eyes. Everything running down hill. It's kind of silly to even think… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I've been into horses as far back as I can remember. There is a particular kind here in America called the 'quarter… — 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 Image
You can write 16 plays and not make as much money as you did doing one movie. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Why would you want to be be counseled in your grief? It's too private. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“Those are the most monotonous fuckin' crickets I ever heard in my life.” — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I'll develop my own image. I'm an original man. A one and only. I just need some help. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
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 Image
