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" A good actor always sets you straight. If you've written a false moment and thought it was probably pretty great, the actor's gonna show you when he gets to that moment. They're the great test of the validity of the material. "

Sam Shepard

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" I'm extremely grateful that I found writing, but it doesn't make it any more peaceful. "

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Found

Writing

" All good writing comes out of aloneness. "

" More than anything, falling in love causes a certain female thing in a man to manifest, oddly enough. "

" Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father. "

" If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end. "

" It's very difficult to escape your background. You know, I don't think it's necessary to even try to escape it. More and more, I start to think that it's necessary to see exactly what it is that you inherited on both ends of the stick: your timidity, your courage, your self-deceit, and your honesty - and all the rest of it. "

" 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. "

" I'm a great believer in chaos. I don't believe that you start with a formula and then you fulfill the formula. Chaos is a much better instigator, because we live in chaos - we don't live in a rigorous form. "

" 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. "

" I think without writing I would feel completely useless. "

" I basically live out of my truck - I mean from place to place. I feel more at home in my truck than just about anywhere, which is a sad thing to say, but it's true. "

" I'm not a big fan of anniversaries. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Sam Shepard

Level

Acting

" I don't attend costume parties. "

" When I just sit around my house and work, I can work two, three hours, and then I go off and ride a horse or do something that I perceive to be a lot more fun. "

" It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common. "

" 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. "

" Myth is a powerful medium because it talks to the emotions and not the head. It moves us into an area of mystery. "

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Emotions

Powerful

" To me, a strong sense of self isn't believing in a lot. "

" The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness. "

" It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one. "