Latest Dennis Hopper Quotes from Interviews

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• I was always involved in art and when I went under contract at Warner Bros. at 18, it afforded me the possibility of never having to stop painting, never having to stop taking photographs and so on, and to actually live a cultural life.

  Dennis Hopper

  Art, Painting, Photograph

  Source: interviewswithicons.wordpress.com

• Banks wont even loan each other money, everybody's going broke, and here we are inside here, these people are going to be out on the street selling apples and pencils and they're still going to be buying paintings for this money, so I don't know what's going on in this world.

  Dennis Hopper

  Apples, People, Buying

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• I'm still around artists. I don't have anymore wall space. And I don't have the money to collect anymore, the prices are outrageous.

  Dennis Hopper

  Wall, Artist, Space

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• I went back to photography in the 1990s. But from the 60s to the 90s I didn't really take any photographs at all, unfortunately. During that period I lived in France, I lived in England, I lived all over the place in different cities. I didn't take any photographs and because I felt I had really accomplished everything that I wanted to in photography during the period between 61 and 67.

  Dennis Hopper

  Photography, Cities, France

  Source: interviewswithicons.wordpress.com

• Photography and painting, all of that fed into my directing eventually.

  Dennis Hopper

  Photography, Painting, Feds

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• As an actor, you have no control really.

  Dennis Hopper

  Actors

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• 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

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• I never really made any money and it certainly cost me more to take photographs than I got for them.

  Dennis Hopper

  Cost, Photograph, Made

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• I think not being a professional photographer was actually a blessing, because it allowed me to shoot things professional photographers wouldn't shoot, or wouldn't try or attempt to shoot without lights. So I did all my stuff natural and without lights.

  Dennis Hopper

  Blessing, Thinking, Light

  Source: interviewswithicons.wordpress.com

• I didn't see an abstract painting until I was 18, when I went to Vincent Price's house and saw Richard Niebencorn, Wolff, Jackson Pollack. He had an amazing collection. I didn't know people painted abstractly, I thought I was just doing something wholeheartedly.

  Dennis Hopper

  People, House, Saws

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• I've always been doing some sort of art. I started off, when I was very young, painting.

  Dennis Hopper

  Art, Painting, Young

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• I was an abstract expressionist before I had seen any abstract expressionist paintings. I started when I was a kid and continued just doing abstract stuff all through high school.

  Dennis Hopper

  School, Kids, Stuff

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• I wanted to be an actor. I decided when I was very young, when I first saw movies, that I wanted to be an actor.

  Dennis Hopper

  Actors, Saws, Firsts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• When I was about 14. I saw my first mountain. I saw the ocean for the first time. I remember thinking that that ocean looked very similar to our wheat fields. I didn't know what I thought I would see when I looked out at the ocean, but I thought I'd see something different.

  Dennis Hopper

  Ocean, Thinking, Wheat Fields

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

  Dennis Hopper

  Reading, Ideas, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Well, it's not just money. I consider myself establishment right now. I'm borderline establishment, I'm hanging on by my toenails - but I'm establishment.

  Dennis Hopper

  Hanging On, Toenails, Establishment

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I used to have to wear a gas mask to school when I was a kid because of the dust. I would tell people that the first light I saw was in a movie theater, because the sun was just a little glow.

  Dennis Hopper

  School, Kids, Light

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I was reading a lot of Thomas Jefferson at the time, and Jefferson said that every 20 years, if one party has stayed in power, it's your obligation as an American to vote the other party in.

  Dennis Hopper

  Party, Reading, Years

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