Sam Shepard Net Worth

Sam Shepard's Quotes

• Collaboration--that's the word producers use. That means, "Don't forget to kiss ass from beginning to end".
• Personality is everything that's false in a human, everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
• [Aug. 1970 interview in "Playboy" magazine] The people the critics write for aren't important to me. As far as I'm concerned, Broadway just doesn't exist.
• [on working in films] It's all about narcissism. Terrence Malick called it "sanctioned vanity". Everything is attended to. "Would you like some Perrier? Anything we can do? May we throw ourselves on the ground in front of you?". This unbelievable barrage of indulgence.
• I was different on drugs-crystal Methedrine, which had more of an edge. When you walked down the street, your heels made sparks.

Interesting Facts about Sam Shepard

1. Lived with Jessica Lange from 1982 to 2009.
2. Suffered from fear of flying.
3. Has a son named Jesse Mojo Shepard (May 1970) from his marriage to O-Lan Jones and two children, Hannah Jane Shepard (January 13, 1986) and Samuel Walker Shepard (June 14, 1987), from his longtime relationship with Jessica Lange.
4. Was the drummer for late 1960s bands "Lothar and the Hand People" and "The Holy Modal Rounders", according to a short interview in the August, 1970 issue of "Playboy" magazine (the former confirmed by the interviewer, who was at the Astor Place Theater in NYC to see a twin-bill of the then-26-year-old Shepard's plays, "The Unseen Hand" and "Forensic and the Navigators") and encountered Shepard drumming away in the lobby with Lothar, et al.
5. He wrote the 1971 play "Cowboy Mouth" with girlfriend Patti Smith and played in the very first production the role of Slim (with Smith in the role of "Cavale"). It is the only time he has played one of his own characters. Just before the second night's performance, Shepard was so disturbed about the experience of playing Slim that he abandoned the role without a word to anyone and left town. He has always had a fear of live audiences.
6. As of 2005 was living with Jessica Lange and their children outside of Stillwater, MN.
7. Brought up on a succession of military bases before his family settled on a farm near Duarte, CA. Worked in a ranch in Chino between 1958-60.
8. By the time he was 30, he had already written 30 produced plays in New York.
9. Collaborated with Bob Dylan in writing the song "Brownsville Girl," which appeared on Dylan's 1986 album "Knocked Out Loaded." The 11-minute song is considered by many to be a bright spot in what was otherwise a creative drought for Dylan from the late 1970s to the early 1990s.
10. He did the rodeo circuit, riding broncs and bulls, including performing in Salinas, CA--the hometown of E.M. Frederic and John Steinbeck.
11. Son of Jane Elaine (Schook) Rogers (b. 1917) and Samuel Shepard Rogers (died in 1984), both teachers.
12. Lived in London, England, between 1971-74.
13. Plays drums and guitar.
14. Was a member of the rock band Holy Modal Rounders (1968-71).
15. Awarded a fellowship from Yale University in 1968 and one from the University of Minnesota in 1969.
16. Received a 1967 Rockefeller Foundation grant and a 1968 Guggenheim Foundation grant.
17. Oldest of three children. Had two sisters named Sandy Rogers and Roxanne Rogers.
18. His sister Roxanne Rogers, a stage director, graduated in 1978 from Antioch.
19. His sister Sandy Rogers is a composer and a musician.
20. He played Ethan Hawke's father in both Snow Falling on Cedars (1999) and Hamlet (2000).