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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 49 quotes by Sam Shepard Sam Shepard (born Samuel Shepard Rogers III; November 5, 1943) is an American playwright, actor, and television and film director. He is the author of several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child. Shepard was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of pilot Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff (1983). Shepard received the PEN/Laura... Read full biography of Sam Shepard → 1 2 3 4 Ctrl → 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...... → 0 For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have... → 0 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... → 0 It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common. 0 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... → 0 There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it, it's part of our... → 0 In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the possibility of not knowing... → 0 It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the... → 0 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... → 0 Hollywood is geared toward teenage idiocy. 0 I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer. 0 I'm not in demand. I'm all washed up. 0 You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by. 0 1 2 3 4 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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