Dennis Hopper Quotes
Work is fun to me. All those years of being an actor and a director and not being able to get a job - two weeks is too long to not know what my next job will be.
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My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.
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Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.
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One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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My dream role is Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community unless and until there emerges from its mentality a distinctive culture particularized by the community's special character.
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I am so lazy and sometimes will go as late as 9 A.M. to shoot.
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Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.
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I know I will leave my work unfinished. I just hope I planted enough seeds in my children and grandchildren that they will continue.
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The greatest mistake you can make is to say that your work is better than a lot of the shit that's out there. No doubt. But being better than shit is not exactly a shining credential. (p. 30)
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My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano.
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Work is fun to me. All those years of being an actor and a director and not being able to get a job - two weeks is too long to not know what my next job will be.
