Sam Shepard Quotes


"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
(Related: Acting, End, Film, Hate, Moments, Play)

"I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer."
- Sam Shepard
(Related: Writer)

"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
(Related: Home, Country, Nostalgia)

"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
(Related: Time, Work, Act, Buying, Horses, Writer)

"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
(Related: Fear, Being, Breeding, Now, Obvious, Wrong)

"You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by."
- Sam Shepard
(Related: Living)