This isn't champagne anymore. We went through the champagne a long time ago. This is serious stuff. The days of champagne are… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
You can’t keep messing me around like this. It’s been going on too long. I can’t take it anymore. I get sick… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
They say TV has a tendency to diminish actors, and I think that's probably true in the long run - it wears… — 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
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
I'm still very much a believer in the spontaneity of certain kinds of writing. But then you have to eventually, when you're… — 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