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
A good actor always sets you straight. If you've written a false moment and thought it was probably pretty great, the actor's… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
“VINCE: I was gonna run last night. I was gonna run and keep right on running. Clear to the Iowa border. I… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
“There are times when I can’t help thinking about the past. I know the present is the place to be. It’s always… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I never thought about having a daughter, and then I had a daughter, and it was a remarkable thing. It was very… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness.… — 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
