220 Quotes by Sam Shepard

I don't attend costume parties.

I stay away from heavy-handed stuff, the good guy and the bad guy. It just doesn't interest me; all it does is create more fences between people, I think.

It's very easy to lose language - it can be shut off in a second.

I had two experiences with very close friends of mine who experienced aphasia, the loss of language. It shocked me.

There is this aura that the three-act play is the important one: it's the one that you do to win the Pulitzer. Some part of you falls for that, and then after a while, you don't fall for that.

What I'm after is something different than supplying people with the idea that I'm writing an important play.

Film is anti-language.

I've always found it embarrassing to receive awards.

Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.