Sam Shepard Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)
Sam Shepard quotes and sayings page 4 (81 year old playwright). Here's quote # 31 through 40 out of the 49 we have for him.
“I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.”
“I think without writing I would feel completely useless.”
“I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.”
“I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.”
“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.”
“Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.”
“The words I overuse are all adverbs.”
“I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.”
“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.”
“I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into prose and tell different kinds of stories and stuff. But being a writer is so great because you're literally not dependent on anybody.”
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