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List of Sam Shepard Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 68 inspiring quotes by Sam Shepard.

About Sam Shepard

  • Born: November 5, 1943
  • Occupation: Playwright
    • 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 wasnt far enough.
    Couple Father Fall
    Ive been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where i can just do exactly what i want and nobody messes with me.
    Writing Play Want
    I was shot in the wrist when i was a kid. deliberately.
    Kids Shots Wrists
    My dad's side of the family ... they're a real bizarre bunch, going back to the original colonies. that side's got a real tough strain of alcoholism. it goes back generations and generations, so that you can't remember when there was a sober grandfather.
    Dad Real Grandfather
    I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. i think of myself as a writer.
    Thinking Stuff Way
    It's hard to explain why exactly, but i think that when i began writing plays, it was from an actor's point of view more than anything. i had the feeling that if you put yourself in the position of the actor on stage and write from that perspective, it would give you a certain advantage in terms of being inside of the play.
    Writing Thinking Views
    Caryl churchill is a writer of some note, but in the sack, she makes me explain everything.
    Notes
    [rewriting is] a whole other art form; it's about craftsmanship.
    Art Writing Crafts
    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.
    War Done Murder
    In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man. the purpose of it, of course, was to write about myself. that character was always the least fully realized. eighteen years later, you realize, that's what he was about.
    Writing Character Son
    Hollywood is geared toward teenage idiocy.
    Teenage Hollywood Idiocy
    To sing a song is quite different than to write a poem. i'm not and never will be a novelist, but to write a novel is not the same thing as writing a play. there is a difference in form, but essentially what you're after is the same thing.
    Song Writing Play
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