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Sam Shepard
Birthday:
5 November 1943
Birth Name:
Samuel Shepard Rogers
Height:
188 cm
Biography
[on Harry Dean Stanton] He is one of those actors who knows that his face is the story.
[on Harry Dean Stanton] He is one of those actors who knows that his face is the story.
I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.
I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.
It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
You're still much more afraid of the audience, and yet, on the other hand, you desperately want to plunge into new territory. So every once in a while, the opportunity to make this leap gets handed to you. It's like jumping into cold water.
You're still much more afraid of the audience, and yet, on the other hand, you desperately want to plunge into new territory. So every once in a while, the opportunity to make this leap gets handed to you. It's like jumping into cold water.
Hollywood is geared toward teenage idiocy.
Hollywood is geared toward teenage idiocy.
I'm not in demand. I'm all washed up.
I'm not in demand. I'm all washed up.
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.
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.
Don't you find it kind of self-indulgent for actors to go around writing parts for themselves?
Don't you find it kind of self-indulgent for actors to go around writing parts for themselves?
I was different on drugs - crystal Methedrine, which had more of an edge. When you walked down the street, your heels made sparks.
I was different on drugs - crystal Methedrine, which had more of an edge. When you walked down the street, your heels made sparks.
[on working in films] "It's all about narcissism. Terrence Malick called it 'sanctioned vanity'. Everything is attended to. Would you like some Perrier? Anything we can do? May we throw ourselves on the ground in front of you? This unbelievable barrage of indulgence".
[on working in films] "It's all about narcissism. Terrence Malick called it 'sanctioned vanity'. Everything is attended to. Would you like some Perrier? Anything we can do? May we throw ourselves on the ground in front of you? This unbelievable barrage of indulgence".
"The people the critics write for aren't important to me. As far as I'm concerned, Broadway just doesn't exist." Quoted in the August, 1970 issue of Playboy (page 19).
"The people the critics write for aren't important to me. As far as I'm concerned, Broadway just doesn't exist." Quoted in the August, 1970 issue of Playboy (page 19).
Personality is everything that's false in a human, everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
Personality is everything that's false in a human, everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
Collaboration - that's the word producers use. That means, don't forget to kiss ass from beginning to end.
Collaboration - that's the word producers use. That means, don't forget to kiss ass from beginning to end.
Sam Shepard
Sam Shepard was born Samuel Shepard Rogers in Fort Sheridan, Illinois, to Jane Elaine (Schook), a teacher, and Samuel Shepard Rogers, a teacher and farmer who was also in the army. As the eldest son of a US Army officer (and WWII bomber pilot), Shepard spent his early childhood moving from base to base around the US until finally settling in Duarte, California. While at high school he began acting and writing and worked as a ranch hand in Chino. He graduated high school in 1961 and then spent a year studying agriculture at Mount San Antonio Junior College, intending to become a vet.In 1962, though, a touring theater company, the Bishop's Company Repertory Players, visited the town and he joined up and left home to tour with them. He spent nearly two years with the company and eventually settled in New York where he began writing plays, first performing with an obscure off-off-Broadway group but eventually gaining recognition for his writing and winning prestigious OBIE awards (Off-Broadway ) three years running.He flirted with the world of rock, playing drums for the Holy Modal Rounders, then moved to London in 1971 where he continued writing.Back in the US by 1974, he became playwright in residence at San Francisco's Magic Theater and continued to work as an increasingly well respected playwright throughout the 1970s and into the '80s.Throughout this time he had been dabbling with Hollywood having, most notably in the early days, worked as one of the writers on Zabriskie Point (1970), but it was his role as Chuck Yeager in 1983's The Right Stuff (1983) that brought him fully to the attention of the wider, non-theater audience.Since then he has continued to write, act and direct, both on screen and in the theater.
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