Dennis Hopper

The best and only authentic book written on the sixties underground.

— Dennis Hopper

When some people were going around being surf bums and tennis bums, I was being a gallery bum. I really liked galleries.

— Dennis Hopper

I used to have to wear a gas mask to school when I was a kid because of the dust. I would…

— Dennis Hopper

I did a video with Mick Jagger down in Rio de Janeiro. But I played a video director, and that's the closest…

— Dennis Hopper

Like all artists, I want to cheat death a little and contribute something to the next generation.

— Dennis Hopper

I'm just a middle-class farm boy from Dodge City, Kansas. And I always thought that acting was art, writing was art, music…

— Dennis Hopper

You know, this is such a rich time that we've just been involved in, and there's really a job now for historians.…

— Dennis Hopper

I am just a middle-class farm boy from Dodge City and my grandparents were wheat farmers. I thought painting, acting, directing and…

— Dennis Hopper

The inside of the Pentagon is an incredible place and a dramatic set. We do [travel] outside, but the inside workings of…

— Dennis Hopper

It's strange: I always try to do the best acting job I can do under the imaginary circumstances of my working position…

— Dennis Hopper

... I'm sort of a nervous person with the camera, so I will just shoot arbitrarily until I can focus and compose…

— Dennis Hopper

[After Easy Rider] I couldn't get another movie, so I lived in Mexico City for a couple of years. I lived in…

— Dennis Hopper

Society loves to put bubbles up there and pop them, and I resent it. I'd rather expose myself myself.

— Dennis Hopper

My whole written history is one big lie! I mean, I can't even believe my history.

— Dennis Hopper

Banks wont even loan each other money, everybody's going broke, and here we are inside here, these people are going to be…

— Dennis Hopper

There are moments that I`ve had some real brilliance, you know. But I think they are moments. And sometimes, in a career,…

— Dennis Hopper

I should have been dead ten times over. I've thought about that a lot. I believe in miracles. It's an absolute miracle…

— Dennis Hopper

I think 'Easy Rider' might have been the first time that someone made a film using found music instead of an orchestral…

— Dennis Hopper

I don't believe in reading. I don't care about reading. It means nothing to me. I believe that by using your eyes…

— Dennis Hopper

The reality of things going on around me is more interesting than the fantasies of the world I work in.

— Dennis Hopper

I changed to Republican when Reagan became president because I wanted to see a change to years of Democrat-run Senate. And I…

— Dennis Hopper

I think, at one point, I'd been in the five most expensive movies ever made - not that I had large parts…

— Dennis Hopper

I made a picture called Super Mario Bros., and my six-year-old son at the time - he's now 18 - he said,…

— Dennis Hopper

For most of my life I wasn't on the left.

— Dennis Hopper

Warner Bros. got into television very early, so I did a lot of television there. In the beginning, it was sort of…

— Dennis Hopper