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Top 30 Dennis Hopper Quotes (2025 Update)

Dennis Hopper Quote: “You’re like a turd that won’t flush.”

1. “You’re like a turd that won’t flush.”

— Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper Quote: “Just because it happened to you, doesn’t mean it’s interesting.”

2. “Just because it happened to you, doesn’t mean it’s interesting.”

— Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper Quote: “The man is clear in his mind, but his soul is mad.”

3. “The man is clear in his mind, but his soul is mad.”

— Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper Quote: “Dialectic logic is there’s only love and hate, you either love somebody or you hate them.”

4. “Dialectic logic is there’s only love and hate, you either love somebody or you hate them.”

— Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper Quote: “It takes more than going down to the video store and renting “Easy Rider” to be a rebel.”

5. “It takes more than going down to the video store and renting “Easy Rider” to be a rebel.”

— Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper Quote: “I used to have to wear a gas mask to school when I was a kid because of the dust. I would tell people that the first light I saw was in a movie theater, because the sun was just a little glow.”

6. “I used to have to wear a gas mask to school when I was a kid because of the dust. I would tell people that the first light I saw was in a movie theater, because the sun was just a little glow.”

— Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper Quote: “In Method acting, you can’t have preconceived ideas. You have to live in the moment. You have to keep yourself open.”

7. “In Method acting, you can’t have preconceived ideas. You have to live in the moment. You have to keep yourself open.”

— Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper Quote: “The reality of things going on around me is more interesting than the fantasies of the world I work in.”

8. “The reality of things going on around me is more interesting than the fantasies of the world I work in.”

— Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper Quote: “Art is a bad word in Hollywood. You use art too many times and they show you the elevator and then your name is taken off the parking lot.”

9. “Art is a bad word in Hollywood. You use art too many times and they show you the elevator and then your name is taken off the parking lot.”

— Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper Quote: “I am just a middle-class farm boy from Dodge City and my grandparents were wheat farmers. I thought painting, acting, directing and photography were all part of being an artist. I have made my money that way. And I have had some fun. It’s not been a bad life.”

10. “I am just a middle-class farm boy from Dodge City and my grandparents were wheat farmers. I thought painting, acting, directing and photography were all part of being an artist. I have made my money that way. And I have had some fun. It’s not been a bad life.”

— Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper Quote: “When we’re out of the eighties, the nineties are gonna make the sixties look like the fifties!”

11. “When we’re out of the eighties, the nineties are gonna make the sixties look like the fifties!”

— Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper Quote: “I should have been dead ten times over. I’ve thought about that a lot. I believe in miracles. It’s an absolute miracle that I’m still around.”

12. “I should have been dead ten times over. I’ve thought about that a lot. I believe in miracles. It’s an absolute miracle that I’m still around.”

— Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper Quote: “I’ve been a Republican since Reagan. I voted for Bush and his father. I don’t tell a lot of people, because I live in a city where somebody who voted for Bush is really an outcast.”

13. “I’ve been a Republican since Reagan. I voted for Bush and his father. I don’t tell a lot of people, because I live in a city where somebody who voted for Bush is really an outcast.”

— Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper Quote: “Like all artists, I want to cheat death a little and contribute something to the next generation.”

14. “Like all artists, I want to cheat death a little and contribute something to the next generation.”

— Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper Quote: “My whole written history is one big lie! I mean, I can’t even believe my history.”

15. “My whole written history is one big lie! I mean, I can’t even believe my history.”

— Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper Quote: “Work is fun to me. All those years of being an actor and a director and not being able to get a job – two weeks is too long to not know what my next job will be.”

16. “Work is fun to me. All those years of being an actor and a director and not being able to get a job – two weeks is too long to not know what my next job will be.”

— Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper Quote: “People keep asking me, ‘What evil lurks in you to play such bad characters?’ There is no evil in me, I just wear tight underwear.”

17. “People keep asking me, ‘What evil lurks in you to play such bad characters?’ There is no evil in me, I just wear tight underwear.”

— Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper Quote: “When I was about 14. I saw my first mountain. I saw the ocean for the first time. I remember thinking that that ocean looked very similar to our wheat fields. I didn’t know what I thought I would see when I looked out at the ocean, but I thought I’d see something different.”

18. “When I was about 14. I saw my first mountain. I saw the ocean for the first time. I remember thinking that that ocean looked very similar to our wheat fields. I didn’t know what I thought I would see when I looked out at the ocean, but I thought I’d see something different.”

— Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper Quote: “There are moments that I’ve had some real brilliance, you know. But I think they are moments. And sometimes, in a career, moments are enough.”

19. “There are moments that I’ve had some real brilliance, you know. But I think they are moments. And sometimes, in a career, moments are enough.”

— Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper Quote: “In a world where the dead have returned to life, the word” trouble’ loses much of its meaning.”

20. “In a world where the dead have returned to life, the word” trouble’ loses much of its meaning.”

— Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper Quote: “The best and only authentic book written on the sixties underground.”

21. “The best and only authentic book written on the sixties underground.”

— Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper Quote: “I was very shy, and it was a lot easier for me to communicate if I had a camera between me and other people.”

22. “I was very shy, and it was a lot easier for me to communicate if I had a camera between me and other people.”

— Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper Quote: “You know, this is such a rich time that we’ve just been involved in, and there’s really a job now for historians. Film is still very young. This is the first hundred years of filmmaking. So I think it’s important that we have some sense of history and continuity. Especially in film.”

23. “You know, this is such a rich time that we’ve just been involved in, and there’s really a job now for historians. Film is still very young. This is the first hundred years of filmmaking. So I think it’s important that we have some sense of history and continuity. Especially in film.”

— Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper Quote: “Well, it’s not just money. I consider myself establishment right now. I’m borderline establishment, I’m hanging on by my toenails – but I’m establishment.”

24. “Well, it’s not just money. I consider myself establishment right now. I’m borderline establishment, I’m hanging on by my toenails – but I’m establishment.”

— Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper Quote: “Independent films in this country are in the same position. Miramax and Fine Line are not independent – they’re with Disney! Come on. Or they’re with Warner Brothers. They’re all with somebody.”

25. “Independent films in this country are in the same position. Miramax and Fine Line are not independent – they’re with Disney! Come on. Or they’re with Warner Brothers. They’re all with somebody.”

— Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper Quote: “Seven of those days were pretty good. The eighth day was the bad one.”

26. “Seven of those days were pretty good. The eighth day was the bad one.”

— Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper Quote: “You know, the history of California art doesn’t start until about 1961, and that’s when these photographs start. I mean, we have no history out here.”

27. “You know, the history of California art doesn’t start until about 1961, and that’s when these photographs start. I mean, we have no history out here.”

— Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper Quote: “I was a Shakespearean actor, I had preconceived ideas, line readings – everything was a gesture, everything was conscious.”

28. “I was a Shakespearean actor, I had preconceived ideas, line readings – everything was a gesture, everything was conscious.”

— Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper Quote: “To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.”

29. “To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.”

— Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper Quote: “I was reading a lot of Thomas Jefferson at the time, and Jefferson said that every 20 years, if one party has stayed in power, it’s your obligation as an American to vote the other party in.”

30. “I was reading a lot of Thomas Jefferson at the time, and Jefferson said that every 20 years, if one party has stayed in power, it’s your obligation as an American to vote the other party in.”

— Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper Quote: “For most of my life I wasn’t on the left.”

31. “For most of my life I wasn’t on the left.”

— Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper Quote: “I wanted to be an actor. I decided when I was very young, when I first saw movies, that I wanted to be an actor.”

32. “I wanted to be an actor. I decided when I was very young, when I first saw movies, that I wanted to be an actor.”

— Dennis Hopper

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