You can write 16 plays and not make as much money as you did doing one movie. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Hats look exactly the same. There's no difference between The Writing Hat and The Acting Hat. — 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… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
“You don't have to take it out on my typewrite ya' know. It's not the machine's fault that you can't write. It's… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
You sometimes use the excuse, 'I'm a writer, dammit, I can do anything I want,' but that doesn't work. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Caryl Churchill is a writer of some note, but in the sack, she makes me explain everything. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
What I'm after is something different than supplying people with the idea that I'm writing an important play. — 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
Farm country -- you know, hay, horses, cattle. It's the ideal situation for me. I like the physical endeavors that go with… — 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
I think most writers, in a sense, have this desire to disappear, to be absolutely anonymous, to be removed in some way:… — 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
I feel like the writers that I'm drawn to, the writers that I really cling to, are the writers who seem to… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
The great thing for me, now, is that writing has become more and more interesting. Not just as a craft but as… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
My first job was with the Burns Detective Agency. They sent me over to the East River to guard coal barges during… — 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
I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
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
On every film, there are producers all over the place, and everyone's got to have an opinion. I think the screenplay is… — 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
For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I've always felt a great affinity with music. I've felt myself to be more of a musician than anything else, though I'm… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
All of the great writers whom I admire have died. I guess the most recent one would be Marquez. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened. — 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
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'm extremely grateful that I found writing, but it doesn't make it any more peaceful. — 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 didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I've heard writers talk about "discovering a voice," but for me that wasn't a problem. There were so many voices that I… — 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
To sing a song is quite different than to write a poem. I'm not and never will be a novelist, but to… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether… — 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
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