Spalding Gray
Spalding Gray
Spalding Rockwell Graywas an American actor and writer. He is known for the autobiographical monologues that he wrote and performed for the theater in the 1980s and 1990s...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAutobiographer
Date of Birth5 June 1941
CityProvidence, RI
CountryUnited States of America
sleep climbing class
And just as I was climbing into that first-class seat, and wrapping myself in a blanket, just as I was adjusting my pillow behind my head, and having a sip of that champagne, and just as I was bringing down and adjusting my Thai purple sleep mask, I had an inkling. I had a flash. I suddenly thought I knew what it was that had killed Marilyn Monroe.
beautiful responsibility waitress
All the beautiful waitresses existed like eternal responsibilities.
good-love people laughing
If I can make people laugh it's like being a good lover.
new-york thinking faces
The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode.
baby people needs
I understood once I held a baby in my arms, why some people have the need to keep having them.
travel believe pilots
He won't fly on the Balinese airline, Garuda, because he won't fly on any airline where the pilots believe in reincarnation.
stuck
To be famous is to be stuck in an inflexible place. But at least it is to be stuck with money.
people stranger
How theraputic it is to surrond yourself with people stranger than yourself.
new-york thinking vegetables
I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup.
home relax garbage
I consulted a therapist at Mass. General. After about 20 minutes, he stopped me and said, 'You're just a big existential garbage pail. Go home and relax.'
painter breaths pens
I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.
memories cutting thinking
I say that I can't make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I'm cutting and pasting memories of my life. And I say, I have to live a life in order to tell a life. I would prefer to tell it because telling you're always in control, you're like God.
travel new-york moving
I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City .
doubt
The only thing I don't doubt is my doubt.