I think comedy's harder to pull off on the screen than on the stage, anyway. Tragedy is easier on the screen... oddly… — 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
On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source of the imagination. You can travel… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing about writing for theatre is you can go anywhere you want with the language. There are no limits. With… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Being a writer is so great because you're literally not dependent on anybody. Whereas, as an actor, you have to audition or… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
It's hard to explain why exactly, but I think that when I began writing plays, it was from an actor's point of… — 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
The fantastic thing about the theatre is that it can make something be seen that's invisible, and that's where my interest in… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Writing for the theatre is so different to writing for anything else. Because what you write is eventually going to be spoken.… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I know, as an actor, you have to negotiate, but I can't handle the whole idea that art and commerce are synonymous.… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
When you're 19 and writing plays, you think every actor is full of it. They just can't handle your brilliant material. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Ive been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with… — 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
