American - Playwright | November 5, 1943 - July 27, 2017
In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man.
Sam Shepard
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I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
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When I was a kid, we didn't have a TV until the late '50s, but I can remember watching Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers, Steve McQueen, and 'Gunsmoke.'
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I keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.
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My father had a real short fuse. He had a tough life - had to support his mother and brother at a very young age when his dad's farm collapsed. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one. My father was full of terrifying anger.
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I guess what I like is mostly country & western or else stuff that has a real blues feel to it.
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Guys like Clyde McPhatter used to sing their tail ends off!
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do people do it, for years and years?
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I know, as an actor, you have to negotiate, but I can't handle the whole idea that art and commerce are synonymous. It drives me nuts.
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A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.
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When you listen intensely to anything, you see how it can be improved.
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