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Dennis Hopper Biography

Dennis Lee Hopper (May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010) was an American actor, filmmaker, photographer and artist. He attended the Actors Studio, made his first television appearance in 1954, and soon after appeared alongside James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause (1955), and Giant (1956) and Gunfight at the OK Corral (1957). In the next ten years he made a name in television, and by the end of the 1960s had appeared in several films. Hopper also began a prolific and acclaimed photography career in the 1960s.

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When we're out of the eighties, the nineties are gonna make the sixties look like the fifties!

Eighties, Eighty, Looks, Make, Sixties, Sixty

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

Art, Painting, Young

You want to hear about insanity? I was found running naked through the jungles in Mexico. At the Mexico City airport, I decided I was in the middle of a movie and walked out on the wing on takeoff. My body. . . my liver. . . okay, my brain. . . went.

Airports, Cities, Jungles, Mexico, Running, Walked

The inside of the Pentagon is an incredible place and a dramatic set. We do [travel] outside, but the inside workings of the civilian oversight of the military inside the Pentagon is really about as exciting as anything you ever want to deal with. It is really amazing.

Amazing, Incredibles, Military, Pentagon, Travel, Want

Art is a bad word in Hollywood. You use art too many times and they show you the elevator and then your name is taken off the parking lot.

Art, Bad, Elevator, Name, Names, Taken

There are moments that I`ve had some real brilliance, you know. But I think they are moments. And sometimes, in a career, moments are enough.

Careers, Enough, Know, Real, Thinking

In a world where the dead have returned to life, the word" trouble' loses much of its meaning.

Loses, Trouble, Word, World

My whole written history is one big lie! I mean, I can't even believe my history.

Believe, Big, Lie, Lying, Mean, Whole

The alcohol was awful. I was a terrible alcoholic. I mean, people used to ask how much drugs I did. I said, 'I only do drugs so I can drink more'. I was doing the coke so I could drink more. I mean, I don't know any other reason. I'd start drinking in the morning. I'd drink all day long.

Drinking, Know, Mean, Morning, Start

The reality of things going on around me is more interesting than the fantasies of the world I work in.

Fantasies, Interesting, Reality, Things, World

You know, the history of California art doesn't start until about 1961, and that's when these photographs start. I mean, we have no history out here.

Art, California, History, Know, Mean, Photographs

Every time I go to Europe, I remember that James Dean never saw Europe, but yet I see his face everywhere. There's James Dean, Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe - windows of the Champs Elysees, discos in the south of Spain, restaurants in Sweden, t-shirts in Moscow. My life was confused and disoriented for years by his passing. My sense of destiny destroyed - the great films he would have directed, the great performances he would have given, the great humanitarian he would have become, and yet, he's the greatest actor and star I have ever known.

Confused, Destiny, Marilyn, See, Stars, Time

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.

Art, Life, Live, Painting, Photograph, Under

I think of [my photographs] as found paintings because I don't crop them, I don't manipulate them or anything. So they're like found objects to me.

Crop, Found, Found Objects, Like, Painting, Thinking

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

Cost, Made, Money, Photograph, Take

Just because it happened to you, doesn't mean it's interesting.

Happened, Interesting, Mean, Music Business

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

Country, Easy, Easy Rider, Motorcycle

I've been sober now for 18 years. With all the drugs, psychedelics and narcotics I did, I was [really] an alcoholic. Honestly, I only used to do cocaine so I could sober up and drink more. My last five years of drinking was a nightmare. I was drinking a half-gallon of rum with a fifth of rum on the side, in case I ran out, 28 beers a day, and three grams of cocaine just to keep me moving around. And I thought I was doing fine because I wasn't crawling around drunk on the floor.

Beer, Drinking, Five, Honestly, Moving, Rum

. . . I'm sort of a nervous person with the camera, so I will just shoot arbitrarily until I can focus and compose something, and then I make a shot. So generally, in [the] proof sheets, there are only three or four really concentrated efforts to take a photograph. It's not like a professional kind of person who sets it up so every photograph looks really cool.

Cameras, Concentrated, Effort, Focus, Generally, Sheets

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.

Looked, Ocean, Saw, Thinking, Wheat Fields

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