220 Quotes by Sam Shepard

I love Levon Helm - he's one of my favorite guys.

I've always felt a great affinity with music. I've felt myself to be more of a musician than anything else, though I'm not proficient in any one instrument. But I think I have a musical sense of things... and writing seems to me to be a musical experience - rhythmically and in many other ways.

Dialogue is like jazz. Dialogue is creative.

I have a cellphone, but I have no Google, I have no gaggle.

Men lie all the time.

I never thought about having a daughter, and then I had a daughter, and it was a remarkable thing. It was very different from having a son and your response to it. With a son, it's much more complex. And it's probably because of my stuff in the past. With a daughter, I was surprised at how simple it is.

It's really great to see an actor find himself, in his sojourn.

I try not to be in situations where I'm being grabbed at. For the most part, you can avoid them.

I keep my horses out in the open, but when I was working the ranches, I had to clean the stalls. It was a horrible job.