All Sam Shepard Quotes
- I'll develop my own image. I'm an original man. A one and only. I just need some help. Develop
- There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross… Acting
- There's gonna be a general lack of toast in the neighborhood this morning. General
- When you consider all the writers who never even had a machine. Who would have given an eyeball for a good typewriter. Any typewriter. All… All
- I don't want to be a playwright, I want to be a rock and roll star. Playwright
- The great thing for me, now, is that writing has become more and more interesting. Not just as a craft but as a way into… Craft
- I still haven't gotten over this thing of walking down the street and somebody recognizing you because you've been in a movie. There's this illusion… Been
- Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs… Acting
- Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of… American
- I wanted to write a play about double nature ... one that wouldn't be symbolic or metaphorical or any of that stuff. I just wanted… Any
- Keep away from fantasy. Shake off the image, Fantasy
- Everyone wants a piece of land. It's the only sure investment. It can never depreciate like a car or a washing machine. Land will double… Car
- Words are tools of imagery in motion, Imagery
- We're being sold a brand new idea of patriotism. It never occurred to me that patriotism had to be advertised. Patriotism is something you deeply… Advertised
- Ideas emerge from plays, not the other way around. Emerge
- Hollywood is geared toward teenage idiocy. Geared
- [Rewriting is] a whole other art form; it's about craftsmanship. Art
- In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man. The purpose of it,… Autobiographical
- I've heard writers talk about "discovering a voice," but for me that wasn't a problem. There were so many voices that I didn't know where… Discovering
- I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer. Go
- It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common. Almost Everybody
- You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by. Barely
- I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably… Actor
- I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be… Accept
- I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a… Compelling