Sam Shepard Quotes

Sam Shepard (7)

Birth:	5th November, 1943
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Author, Director, Dramatist, Screenwriter

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• 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

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• I didn’t go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.

  Sam Shepard

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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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• You can’t make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.

  Sam Shepard

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• 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

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