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Sam Shepard Quotes

Sam Shepard quotes

American Playwright November 5, 1943

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Austin: "Well it is like salvation sort of. I mean the smell. I love the smell of toast. And the sun's coming up. It makes me feel like anything's possible. Y'know? Sam Shepard
Sam Shepard quote: "Those are the most monotonous fuckin' crickets I ever heard in..."
Those are the most monotonous fuckin' crickets I ever heard in my life. 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. Sam Shepard
I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself. Sam Shepard
I don't understand my feelings. I really don't. I don't understand how I could hate you so much after so much time. How, no matter how much I'd like to not hate you, I hate you even more. It grows. Sam Shepard
Weston: Look at my outlook. You don't envy it, right? Wesley: No. Weston: That's because it's full of poison. Infected. And you recognize poison, right? You recognize it when you see it? Wesley: Yes. Weston: Yes, you do. I can see that you do. My poison scares you. Wesley: Doesn't scare me. Weston: No? Wesley: No. Weston: Good. You're growing up. I never saw my old man's poison until I was much older than you. Much older. And then you know how I recognized it? Wesley: How? Weston: Because I... Sam Shepard
You can’t keep messing me around like this. It’s been going on too long. I can’t take it anymore. I get sick every time you come around. Then I get sick when you leave. You’re like a disease to me. Sam Shepard
Sam Shepard quote: "She refers to her past as the time before she was "blown away."
She refers to her past as the time before she was "blown away. Sam Shepard
This isn't champagne anymore. We went through the champagne a long time ago. This is serious stuff. The days of champagne are long gone. Sam Shepard
Sam Shepard quote: "I believe in my mask-- The man I made up is me. I believe in..."
I believe in my mask-- The man I made up is me. I believe in my dance-- And my destiny Sam Shepard
Sam Shepard quote: "I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I..."
I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer. Sam Shepard
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. Sam Shepard
Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism. Sam Shepard
Sam Shepard quote: "When you hit a wall? of your own imagined limitations? just..."
When you hit a wall? of your own imagined limitations? just kick it in. Sam Shepard
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 being on the wrong side. Sam Shepard

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