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  • I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.

    "Sam Shepard plays with the Butch Cassidy myth" by Mark Olsen, www.latimes.com. October 09, 2011.