I did a video with Mick Jagger down in Rio de Janeiro. But I played a video director, and that’s the closest I’ve gotten to directing, except Bob Dylan came and had a few meetings with me about doing a video for him. Dennis Hopper Read Quote
I painted from the time I was five years old. I was going to be a painter, an actor, a director, and a writer. Dennis Hopper Read Quote
When some people were going around being surf bums and tennis bums, I was being a gallery bum. I really liked galleries. Dennis Hopper Read Quote
Two chicks. I mean, ladies… ah – women, girls, whatever the term is. I’ll get it. I’ve got it marked down somewhere. Dennis Hopper Read Quote
Warner Bros. got into television very early, so I did a lot of television there. In the beginning, it was sort of okay to do television. But then it became this thing where movie actors didn’t do television – they certainly didn’t do commercials, because that just meant the end of your career. Dennis Hopper Read Quote
I’m just a middle-class farm boy from Dodge City, Kansas. And I always thought that acting was art, writing was art, music was art, painting was art, and I’ve tried to keep that cultural vibe to my life. Dennis Hopper Read Quote
Work is fun to me. All those years of being an actor and a director and not being able to get a job – two weeks is too long to not know what my next job will be. Dennis Hopper Read Quote
Victoria got very involved with the Obama campaign, and I stepped back out of it. I thought it was good for her to get some glory. It’s hard being married to a celebrity. Dennis Hopper Read Quote
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 Read Quote
