Dennis Hopper Quotes

You're like a turd that won't flush.

It takes more than going down to the video store and renting "Easy Rider" to be a rebel.

To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.

I think of [my photographs] as found paintings because I don't crop them, I don't manipulate them or anything. So they're like found objects to me.

When we're out of the eighties, the nineties are gonna make the sixties look like the fifties!

Like all artists, I want to cheat death a little and contribute something to the next generation.

In a world where the dead have returned to life, the word trouble' loses much of its meaning.

Dialectic logic is there's only love and hate, you either love somebody or you hate them.

I was very shy, and it was a lot easier for me to communicate if I had a camera between me and other people.

The reality of things going on around me is more interesting than the fantasies of the world I work in.

In Method acting, you can't have preconceived ideas. You have to live in the moment. You have to keep yourself open.

The best and only authentic book written on the sixties underground.

My whole written history is one big lie! I mean, I can't even believe my history.

Seven of those days were pretty good. The eighth day was the bad one.

You know, the history of California art doesn't start until about 1961, and that's when these photographs start. I mean, we have no history out here.

I was a Shakespearean actor, I had preconceived ideas, line readings - everything was a gesture, everything was conscious.

Art is a bad word in Hollywood. You use art too many times and they show you the elevator and then your name is taken off the parking lot.

People keep asking me, 'What evil lurks in you to play such bad characters?' There is no evil in me, I just wear tight underwear.

I should have been dead ten times over. I've thought about that a lot. I believe in miracles. It's an absolute miracle that I'm still around.

'Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country.