Sam Shepard quotes - page 2

Sam Shepard was an influential American playwright, actor, and director, known for his innovative works in modern theater. His plays often explored themes of family dynamics, the American mythos, and fractured identities. He left a significant mark on both stage and screen, earning numerous awards throughout his career. Here are 64 of his quotes:

I'm a great believer in chaos. I don't believe that you start with a formula and then you fulfill the formula. Chaos is a much better instigator, because we live in chaos - we don't live in a rigorous form. (Sam Shepard)
I think without writing I would feel completely useless. View quote
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More than anything, falling in love causes a certain female thing in a man to manifest, oddly enough. View quote
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When you're 19 and writing plays, you think every actor is full of it. They just can't handle your brilliant material. View quote
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I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway. View quote
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Myth is a powerful medium because it talks to the emotions and not the head. It moves us into an area of mystery. View quote
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A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all. View quote
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Film is anti-language. View quote
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera. View quote
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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 onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play. View quote
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The words I overuse are all adverbs. (Sam Shepard)
Dialogue is like jazz. Dialogue is creative. View quote
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Why would you want to be be counseled in your grief? It's too private. View quote
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You can write 16 plays and not make as much money as you did doing one movie. View quote
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Men lie all the time. View quote
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After the falling out with my father, I worked on a couple of ranches - thoroughbred layup farms, actually - out toward Chino, California. That was fine for a little while, but I wanted to get out completely, and twenty miles away wasn't far enough. View quote
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When you listen intensely to anything, you see how it can be improved. View quote
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I don't attend costume parties. View quote
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father. View quote
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My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one. View quote
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I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately. (Sam Shepard)
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 entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write. View quote
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You sometimes use the excuse, 'I'm a writer, dammit, I can do anything I want,' but that doesn't work. View quote
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Love is the only disease that makes you feel better. View quote
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Words are tools of imagery in motion. View quote
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Sam Shepard

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Occupation: American Playwright
Born: November 5, 1943
Died: July 27, 2017
Quotes count: 64

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