Sam Shepard Quotes

21 Sourced Quotes

In this business we make movies, American movies. Leave the films to the French.

Sam Shepard
The most authentic endings are the ones which are already revolving towards another beginning.

Sam Shepard
I like cars. I like travel. I like the idea of people breaking down and I'm the only one who can help them get on the road again. It would be like being a magician. Just open up the hood and cast your magic spell.

Sam Shepard
When you see the way things deteriorate before your very eyes. Everything running down hill. It's kind of silly to even think about youth.

Sam Shepard
I was in the war. I know how to kill. I was over there. I know how to do it. I've done it before. It's no big deal. You just make an adjustment. You convince yourself it's all right. That's all. It's easy. You just slaughter them.

Sam Shepard
I had a definite sense of somehow being a passenger in an evil vehicle crusing through Paradise.

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

Sam Shepard
Ideas emerge from plays, not the other way round.

Sam Shepard
The people the critics write for aren't important to me. As far as I'm concerned, Broadway just doesn't exist.

Sam Shepard
I don't want to be a playwright, I want to be a rock and roll star.

Sam Shepard
I believe in my mask — The man I made up is me — I believe in my dance — And my destiny.

Sam Shepard
A concert audience has a face. It looks worked upon. Wild eyed. Stimulated from a distant source like a laboratory experiment. As though the stage event, the action being watched and heard, is only a mirror image of some unseen phenomenon.

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
There's gonna be a general lack of toast in the neighborhood this morning.

Sam Shepard
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 its value in ten years. In less than that. Land is going up every day.

Sam Shepard
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 the ones who wrote on a matchbook covers. Paper bags. Toilet paper. Who had their writing destroyed by their jailers. Who persisted beyond all odds.

Sam Shepard
Love. What a crock o' shit. Love! There's another disease. Only difference is it's a disease that makes ya feel good. While it lasts. Then, when it's gone, yer worse off than before you caught it.

Sam Shepard
All the land has been discovered. Some parts of hidden South America maybe still lie out of sight, but this land here has been discovered. Every inch. Now the move is inner space. New religions. est. Gurus. Meditation. Outer space is too expensive and only lies within the reach of the government or corporate industry.

Sam Shepard
Fans are more dangerous than a man with a weapon because they're after something invisible. Some imagined 'something'. At least with a gun you know what you're facing.

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