"Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play."

-- Sam Shepard

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“The reason people don't know what is good for them is because most people don't know what they are trying to do.”
“Palestinians want a state of their own. They want to live in freedom. They want to get rid of the terrible misery in which they are living. They are ready after fifty years to accept a state of their own in 22 percent of what used to be the country of Palestine. I think it is the height of stupidity on our part if we don't grasp this opportunity.”

Source : Source: progressive.org
“We believe in honesty, morality, and purity; but when they enact tyrannical laws, forbidding us the free exercise of our religion, we cannot submit. God is greater than the United States, and when the Government conflicts with heaven, we will be ranged under the banner of heaven and against the Government...Polygamy is a divine institution. It has been banded down direct from God. The United States cannot abolish it. No nation on the earth can prevent it, nor all the nations of the earth combined...I defy the United States; I will obey God.”
“Now I don't care what people think. I did some internet campaign where I was the voice of a puppet for Ford Focus ads because they were paying me a lot of money to do it, it was a very easy gig, but then the bonus was, it turned out to be an enormous amount of fun. I've learned not to turn my nose up at things just because they're not what other people might consider cool to do. Because I've also matured enough to know, you never know where these things are going to lead, and you never know what the experience is going to be like.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“The work needs to get out of your head and on to the table, and it needs to be done from the heart.”
“To commiserate is sometimes more than to give, for money is external to a man's self, but he who bestows compassion communicates his own soul.”

Source : William Mountford, Frederic Dan Huntington (1850). “Martyria: A Legend, Wherein are Contained Homilies, Conversations, and Incidents of the Reign of Edward the Sixth”, p.213
“I was always writing scripts, and I had made several shorts, before and after film school. But I worked a variety of temp positions over the years.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Get me a skinny frappuccino. I have no idea what that is - I would like to think you would be presented with a tiny Italian man.”

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