Dennis Hopper Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

Independent films in this country are in the same position. Miramax and Fine Line are not independent - they're with Disney! Come on. Or they're with Warner Brothers. They're all with somebody.

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

To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.

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.

You know, this is such a rich time that we've just been involved in, and there's really a job now for historians. Film is still very young. This is the first hundred years of filmmaking. So I think it's important that we have some sense of history and continuity. Especially in film.

Trivia

He won acclaim for directing and acting in Out of the Blue (1980).

It was not until he teamed with Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson and made Easy Rider that he really shook up the Hollywood establishment. This film became an anthem of sorts to the lost generation of the Vietnam war and to this day is one of the most successful independent films ever made. Hopper won wide acclaim as the director of the film for his improvisational methods and stop action photography.

He was very talented as a painter and a poet.

In his book Last Train to Memphis, American popular music historian Peter Guralnick says that in 1956 when Elvis Presley was making his first film in Hollywood, Dennis Hopper was roommates with fellow actor Nick Adams and the three became friends and hung out together.

In 2006, he did a commercial for Ameriprise Financial.

He has one of the most extensive collections of modern art in the US.

He had 3 child with three different wife's and had four wife's.

He was also married to Michelle Phillips from the 31 October 1970 to the 8 November 1970.

He provided the narration for the

His father died in 1982.

He graduate of Helix High School, La Mesa, California in 1954.

The 1 September 2000, a Canadian judge dismissed marijuana charges against him from an arrest in Calgary on October 1999.

His height is 5' 9" (1.75 m).

His current marriage to Victory Duffy is his 5th.

Plays the voice of porn director Steven Scott in top-selling console game '

Reported that Rip Torn has won a $475,000 defamation suit against Hopper. Lawsuit came about after remarks made by Hopper on the Tonight Show on 31 May 1994. [14 March 1997].