Dennis Hopper Quotes About Acting

Quotes about: Acting

• I am just a middle-class farm boy from Dodge City and my grandparents were wheat farmers. I thought painting, acting, directing and photography were all part of being an artist. I have made my money that way. And I have had some fun. It's not been a bad life.

  Dennis Hopper

  Photography, Fun, Artist

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Dennis Hopper

  Ideas, Live In The Moment, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I couldn't get a job acting all the time and there were down periods where I could take photographs or paint. I got into a lot of trouble when I was young, from making two films with James Dean, watching him work and then him dying and thinking I could turn down work. There was a big difference, he was a star and I wasn't. So I got in a lot of trouble and was essentially banned from Hollywood.

  Dennis Hopper

  Stars, Jobs, Thinking

  Source: interviewswithicons.wordpress.com

• I was someone who was out of control and not to be worked with. It was partly because method acting was a new thing in Hollywood then and Marlon Brando had gotten through and Montgomery Clift had gotten through and James Dean but beyond that there wasn't really anybody.

  Dennis Hopper

  Acting, Hollywood, Dean

  Source: interviewswithicons.wordpress.com

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