220 Quotes by Sam Shepard

Guys like Clyde McPhatter used to sing their tail ends off!

You don't have to do anything in the movies. You just sit there. Well, that's not entirely true. You do less.

I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.

My father had a real short fuse. He had a tough life - had to support his mother and brother at a very young age when his dad's farm collapsed. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one. My father was full of terrifying anger.

I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do people do it, for years and years?

I don't belong much anywhere.

I know, as an actor, you have to negotiate, but I can't handle the whole idea that art and commerce are synonymous. It drives me nuts.

Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.

A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.