Sam Shepard Quotes
I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
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It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.
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I like sitting close to windows.
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
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I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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Your life, your circumstances change, and you have to continue to grow as a person, and once you have means and opportunity, you have to make different choices to protect what you have.
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A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action.
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People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
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Most big popcorn movies are 'bad guy does something to good guy, good guy gets revenge on bad guy, sets the world right, and moves on.' And 'Ender's Game' is just not that simple, so it's an exciting challenge. It's a little terrifying, and let's see how audiences respond.
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
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Our forefathers regarded as a prodigy the passage of the Alps: first by Hannibal and, more recently, by the Cimbri; but at the present day, these very mountains are cut asunder to yield us a thousand different marbles; promontories are thrown open to the sea; and the face of Nature is being everywhere reduced to a level.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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As far as I'm aware, you can't tell if something is going to be successful. Brilliant scripts often don't get picked up, and terrible ones do all the time!
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It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.
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With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
