Words matter. These are the best Dennis Hopper Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Victoria got very involved with the Obama campaign, and I stepped back out of it. I thought it was good for her to get some glory. It’s hard being married to a celebrity.
I painted from the time I was five years old. I was going to be a painter, an actor, a director, and a writer.
I think ‘Easy Rider’ might have been the first time that someone made a film using found music instead of an orchestral score. No one had really used found music in a movie before, except to play on radios or when someone was singing in a scene.
I made my living as an actor, and I love acting, so I’m an actor. But that gets you in a lot of trouble in the art world.
I don’t enjoy being recognised. It’s unpleasant.
Independent films in this country are in the same position. Miramax and Fine Line are not independent – they’re with Disney! Come on. Or they’re with Warner Brothers. They’re all with somebody.
The new generation doesn’t know anything about me except for what they saw in’ Easy Rider.’
Warner Bros. got into television very early, so I did a lot of television there. In the beginning, it was sort of okay to do television. But then it became this thing where movie actors didn’t do television – they certainly didn’t do commercials, because that just meant the end of your career.
In Method acting, you can’t have preconceived ideas. You have to live in the moment. You have to keep yourself open.
When some people were going around being surf bums and tennis bums, I was being a gallery bum. I really liked galleries.
‘Easy Rider’ and ‘The Last Movie’ were the only films that I made totally on my own.
I decided when I was very young, when I first saw movies, that I wanted to be an actor.
My grandparents were from Kentucky – I’m related to Daniel Boone. He was my great-great-great uncle.
Society loves to put bubbles up there and pop them, and I resent it. I’d rather expose myself myself.
Work is fun to me. All those years of being an actor and a director and not being able to get a job – two weeks is too long to not know what my next job will be.
Two chicks. I mean, ladies… ah – women, girls, whatever the term is. I’ll get it. I’ve got it marked down somewhere.
‘Easy Rider’ was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country.
