Quotes About Easy Rider

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

Peter Fonda

#2. '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

#3. Just my luck, she thought. Here I am in the middle of nowhere, and Easy Rider comes to my rescue.

Susan Wiggs

#4. I wasn't an expert or even the biggest Dennis Hopper fan in the world. All I knew about him were through his associations with James Dean and Andy Warhol, the fact that he made 'Easy Rider.' I thought his story would have a really great outlaw literary quality to it.

Tom Folsom

#5. I was a young film student around the time of the new wave in film in the 1970s; old Hollywood was naff and over. For me, as a film student, I was going to see French and Italian cinema; American cinema was 'Easy Rider' and 'Taxi Driver.' Everything was gritty.

Gillian Armstrong

#6. 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

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

Dennis Hopper

#8. 'Five Easy Pieces,' 'Easy Rider' - those are indie pictures; those were not studio pictures. They had relationships with studio distribution, but they were indies.

Michael Douglas

#9. My 9-year-old daughter can recite every line from 'Easy Rider,' and that is not an easy song to do. She raps all of Nicki Minaj and everything; she's dope. She has my musical ear for sure. She sings, and she's beautiful. It's very powerful.

Action Bronson

#10. It was cheerful inside, without the aggressive Easy Rider feel of some of the other tattoo parlors in the city, where the handle-jawed thugs wielding the tattoo guns looked like ink was just a side job, their main work, contract killings.

Marisha Pessl

#11. Osha," Bran asked as they crossed the yard. "Do you know the way north? To the Wall and ... and even past?" "The way's easy. Look for the Ice Dragon, and chase the blue star in the rider's eye.

George R R Martin

#12. It's embarrassing ... you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.

Abbie Hoffman

#13. It's really weird 'cause when you're 21 you think, 'Oh God, when I'm 36, oh God, that's nearly 40, and I'll look really old and wrinkly by then.' And actually, I quite like the way I look.

Kate Winslet

#14. But in the end they were not called saints because of the way they died, or because of their visions or wondrous deeds, but because of their extraordinary capacity for the love and goodness, which reminded others of the love of God.

Robert Ellsberg

#15. I'll lock my heart away deeper ..
if I do that ..
I won't have to feel pain outside or inside .. or the fear
I won't have to feel anything at all !

Yoshiyuki Sadamoto

#16. I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so.

Jock Sturges

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

Jack Nicholson

#18. I've always found it very important to do your homework first and then talk.

Irwin M. Jacobs

#19. They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#20. Sometimes, I think I was a child made of that swirling snow, borne of parents who faded into the mountains like ghosts after my birth, never to be seen again.

Moira Katson

#21. Film is a two dimensional thing - it goes up and down and left to right but if you put that music into that two dimensional medium, it became like a third, fourth, and fifth dimension, I really believe in that.

Fatih Akin

#22. What separates those who achieve from those who do not is in direct proportion to one's ability to ask for help.

Donald Keough

#23. If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality.

Eckhart Tolle

#24. Just then, down through the last glimmer of twilight, stepping high and free, like a cloud, a moth, a ghost in the shape of a horse - came the Silver Stallion. Wild, beautiful, and free as the wind he came, from one kingdom to another, Thowra

Elyne Mitchell