Easy Rider Quotes

• If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

  Voltaire

  God, Atheist, Religion

  Epitres no. 96, "A l'Auteur du Livre des Trois Imposteurs" (1770) See Ovid 2

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• I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace. Of course, don't ever tell anybody that they're not free, 'cause then they're gonna get real busy killin' and maimin' to prove to you that they are. Oh yeah, they're gonna talk to you and talk to you and talk to you about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it's gonna scare 'em.

  Jack Nicholson

  Real, Mean, Scare

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• I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace.

  Jack Nicholson

  Real, Mean, Marketplace

  "Fictional character: George Hanson". "Easy Rider", www.imdb.com. 1969.

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

  Dennis Hopper

  Rebel, Video, Stores

  "Fictional character: Huey Walker". "Flashback", www.imdb.com. 1990.

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• Henry Fonda's son: That's how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old Captain America.

  Peter Fonda

  Son, America, Captains

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

  Dennis Hopper

  Country, Motorcycle, Riders

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• If you take a movie like Easy Rider which everyone counts as the beginning of New Hollywood, that is a big movement. And then, when you really dissect that film and the people that were behind that movie, you realize that it has Roger Corman written all over it. Easy Rider is a hybrid film, taking The Trip and The Wild Angels and making a new explosion. And the people that were making it, guess what, they were all [people who had worked with Roger Corman].

  Alex Stapleton

  Angel, People, Hollywood

  Source: collider.com

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• Peter Fonda is the reason I became a motorcyclist. I saw Easy Rider and I bought a motorcycle the next day, and I rode it all the way from LA to San Francisco.

  Nicolas Cage

  Next Day, San Francisco, Motorcycle

  "Ghost Rider - Nicolas Cage interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Peter Fonda was just this clean, cookie-cutter kind of a guy. Roger Corman turned him into the motorcycle man with The Wild Angels. Jack Nicholson, all of them, they all had these images that Roger Corman fueled, and Easy Rider, it was a big surprise to understand how much creative influence Roger had. A lot of people dismiss him as just launching famous people's careers or being a penny pinching producer, but he's so much more than that.

  Alex Stapleton

  Angel, Men, Careers

  Source: collider.com

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• Once, when I was younger, I thought I could be someone else. I'd move to Casablanca, open a bar, and I'd meet Ingrid Bergman. Or more realistically - whether actually more realistic or not - I'd tune in on a better life, something more suited to my true self. Toward that end, I had to undergo training. I read The Greening of America, and I saw Easy Rider three times. But like a boat with a twisted rudder, I kept coming back to the same place. I wasn't anywhere. I was myself, waiting on the shore for me to return.

  Haruki Murakami

  Moving, America, Self

  "Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World". Book by Haruki Murakami, September 1991.

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• [After Easy Rider] I couldn't get another movie, so I lived in Mexico City for a couple of years. I lived in Paris for a couple of years. I didn't take any photographs, and then I went to Japan and saw a Nikon used. I bought it, and I just started, like an alcoholic. I shot 300 rolls of film. That was the beginning of me starting again.

  Dennis Hopper

  Couple, Japan, Years

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