Born Quote by Sam Shepard

I guess what I like is mostly country & western or else stuff that has a real blues feel to it.

— Sam Shepard

You can write 16 plays and not make as much money as you did doing one movie.

— Sam Shepard

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

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

Why would you want to be be counseled in your grief? It's too private.

— Sam Shepard

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

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

“Those are the most monotonous fuckin' crickets I ever heard in my life.”

— Sam Shepard

All good writing comes out of aloneness.

— Sam Shepard

When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.

— Sam Shepard

I'll develop my own image. I'm an original man. A one and only. I just need some help.

— Sam Shepard

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