There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it,… — 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
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
I wanted to write a play about double nature ... one that wouldn't be symbolic or metaphorical or any of that stuff.… — 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
