Top 60 Sam Shepard Quotes (2024 Update)
Page 2 of 2

Sam Shepard Quote: “I think without writing I would feel completely useless.”

51. “I think without writing I would feel completely useless.”

— Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard Quote: “I don’t get offered leading parts. I suppose I’ve become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the ’90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.”

52. “I don’t get offered leading parts. I suppose I’ve become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the ’90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.”

— Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard Quote: “The experience is always different than the plans. The experience was exhausting. I am still exhausted from it.”

53. “The experience is always different than the plans. The experience was exhausting. I am still exhausted from it.”

— Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard Quote: “I didn’t go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.”

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

— Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard Quote: “That’s the thing about later. You don’t know what’s coming up. You don’t know how all the loose ends are going to gather together. Something for sure is going to happen but you don’t know what it is.”

55. “That’s the thing about later. You don’t know what’s coming up. You don’t know how all the loose ends are going to gather together. Something for sure is going to happen but you don’t know what it is.”

— Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard Quote: “Ideas emerge from plays, not the other way around.”

56. “Ideas emerge from plays, not the other way around.”

— Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard Quote: “I still haven’t gotten over this thing of walking down the street and somebody recognizing you because you’ve been in a movie. There’s this illusion that movie stars only exist in the movies. And to see one live is like seeing a leopard let out of the zoo.”

57. “I still haven’t gotten over this thing of walking down the street and somebody recognizing you because you’ve been in a movie. There’s this illusion that movie stars only exist in the movies. And to see one live is like seeing a leopard let out of the zoo.”

— Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard Quote: “I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.”

58. “I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.”

— Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard Quote: “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.”

59. “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.”

— Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard Quote: “When I first started, I didn’t really know how to structure a play. I could write dialogue, but I just sort of failed beyond that, and kind of went wherever I wanted to go.”

60. “When I first started, I didn’t really know how to structure a play. I could write dialogue, but I just sort of failed beyond that, and kind of went wherever I wanted to go.”

— Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard Quote: “I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.”

61. “I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.”

— Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard Quote: “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.”

62. “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.”

— Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard Quote: “Our dwelling is but a wandering, and our abiding is but a fleeting, and in a word our home is nowhere.”

63. “Our dwelling is but a wandering, and our abiding is but a fleeting, and in a word our home is nowhere.”

— Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard Quote: “Now? Why now? Why am I missing her now, Frankie? Why not then? When she was there? Why am I afraid that I’m gonna’ lose her when she’s already gone. And this fear – this fear swarms through me – floods my whole body ’til there’s nothing left. Nothing left of me. And then it turns – it turns to a fear for my whole life. Like my whole life is lost from losing her. Gone. That I’ll die like this. Lost. Just lost.”

64. “Now? Why now? Why am I missing her now, Frankie? Why not then? When she was there? Why am I afraid that I’m gonna’ lose her when she’s already gone. And this fear – this fear swarms through me – floods my whole body ’til there’s nothing left. Nothing left of me. And then it turns – it turns to a fear for my whole life. Like my whole life is lost from losing her. Gone. That I’ll die like this. Lost. Just lost.”

— Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard Quote: “Like some dogs, you don’t want to catch his eye.”

65. “Like some dogs, you don’t want to catch his eye.”

— Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard Quote: “She keeps coming over to my table and asking me if everything’s all right, as though I might be able to reassure her that the world is not coming to an end. “Yes,” I tell her. “Everything’s fine. It’s just history running its course.” She smiles sweetly and flees.”

66. “She keeps coming over to my table and asking me if everything’s all right, as though I might be able to reassure her that the world is not coming to an end. “Yes,” I tell her. “Everything’s fine. It’s just history running its course.” She smiles sweetly and flees.”

— Sam Shepard

Motivational Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Positive Quotes

Positive Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

PREV 1 2 NEXT

Motivational Quotes

Motivational Quotes

INSPIRATIONAL SUCCESS MOTIVATIONAL

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS INSPIRATIONAL

Positive Quotes

Positive Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS INSPIRATIONAL

Steve Jobs Quotes

Steve Jobs Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS APPLE

Inspirational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

COURAGE MOTIVATIONAL STRENGTH

Swami Vivekananda Quotes

Swami Vivekananda Quotes

LIFE SPIRITUALITY

INSPIRATIONAL SUCCESS MOTIVATIONAL

Save image...
Permalink
Open in new tab
Copy quote text

Beautiful Wallpapers and Images

We hope you enjoyed our collection of 60 free pictures with Sam Shepard Quotes.

All of the images on this page were created with QuoteFancy Studio.

Use QuoteFancy Studio to create high-quality images for your desktop backgrounds, blog posts, presentations, social media, videos, posters and more.

Thank you!

Please check your email.