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1. "You can't keep messing me around like this. It's been going on too long. I can't take it anymore. I get sick every time you come around. Then I get sick when you leave. You're like a disease to me." ~ Sam Shepard
2. "You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by." ~ Sam Shepard
3. "You sometimes use the excuse, 'I'm a writer, dammit, I can do anything I want,' but that doesn't work." ~ Sam Shepard
4. "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
5. "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
6. "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
7. "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 exactly how everything is going to happen next - if you can find places to have that happen onstage, it can resonate with an experience of living." ~ Sam Shepard
8. "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 actor are one." ~ Sam Shepard
9. "Those are the most monotonous fuckin' crickets I ever heard in my life." ~ Sam Shepard
10. "Look it - you start out as an artist, I started out when I was nineteen, and you're full of defenses. You have all of this stuff to prove. You have all of these shields in front of you. All your weapons are out. It's like you're going into battle. You can accomplish a certain amount that way. But then you get to a point where you say, "But there's this whole other territory I'm leaving out." And that territory becomes more important as you grow older. You begin to see that you leave out so much when you go to battle with the shield and all the rest of it. You have to start including that other side or die a horrible death as an artist with your shield stuck on the front of your face forever. You can't grow that way. And I don't think you can grow as a person that way, either. There just comes a point when you have to relinquish some of that and risk becoming more open to the vulnerable side, which I think is the female side. It's much more courageous than the male side." ~ Sam Shepard
11. "There's gonna be a general lack of toast in the neighborhood this morning." ~ Sam Shepard
12. "Mi papá vive solo en el desierto. Dice que no se lleva bien con la gente." ~ Sam Shepard
13. "Austin: "Well it is like salvation sort of. I mean the smell. I love the smell of toast. And the sun's coming up. It makes me feel like anything's possible. Y'know?" ~ Sam Shepard
14. "Give me the keys." ~ Sam Shepard
15. "Rondó por la piscinaDel Holiday InnY de golpe se sintió completamente inútilLa imagen de una piscinaA medianocheEn TexasPobre TexasExcavadaComo todas las demás3/79San Marcos, Texas" ~ Sam Shepard
16. "You don't have to take it out on my typewrite ya' know. It's not the machine's fault that you can't write. It's a sin to do that to a good machine." ~ Sam Shepard
17. "When you hit a wall – of your own imagined limitations – just kick it in." ~ Sam Shepard
18. "I had a definite sense of somehow being a passenger in an evil vehicle crusing through Paradise." ~ Sam Shepard
19. "I hate endings. Just detest them. Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster. … The temptation towards resolution, towards wrapping up the package, seems to me a terrible trap. Why not be more honest with the moment? The most authentic endings are the ones which are already revolving towards another beginning. That's genius." ~ Sam Shepard
20. "She refers to her past as the time before she was "blown away." ~ Sam Shepard
21. "You can't believe people when they look you in the eyes. You gotta' look behind them. See what they're standing in front of. What they're hiding. Everyone's hiding, Wes. Everybody. Nobody look like what they are." ~ Sam Shepard
22. "This isn't champagne anymore. We went through the champagne a long time ago. This is serious stuff. The days of champagne are long gone." ~ Sam Shepard
23. "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 these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play." ~ Sam Shepard
24. "Hollywood is geared toward teenage idiocy." ~ Sam Shepard
25. "It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common." ~ Sam Shepard
26. "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
27. "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 heritage. I think part of it is that we've always felt somewhat helpless in the face of this vast continent. Helplessness is answered in many ways, but one of them is violence." ~ Sam Shepard
28. "I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer." ~ Sam Shepard
29. "I'm not in demand. I'm all washed up." ~ Sam Shepard
30. "There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over." ~ Sam Shepard
31. "Weston: Look at my outlook. You don't envy it, right?Wesley: No.Weston: That's because it's full of poison. Infected. And you recognize poison, right? You recognize it when you see it?Wesley: Yes.Weston: Yes, you do. I can see that you do. My poison scares you.Wesley: Doesn't scare me.Weston: No?Wesley: No.Weston: Good. You're growing up. I never saw my old man's poison until I was much older than you. Much older. And then you know how I recognized it?Wesley: How?Weston: Because I saw myself infected with it. That's how. I saw me carrying it around. His poison in my body." ~ Sam Shepard
32. "I believe in my mask-- The man I made up is meI believe in my dance-- And my destiny" ~ Sam Shepard

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