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
real order crafts
Real life has always let me down. That's why I do the monologues. I have always said I would rather tell a life than live a life. But I have to live a life in order to tell one.
children wall mistake
When I was in therapy about two years ago, one day I noticed that I hadn't had any children. And I like children at a distance. I wondered if I'd like them up close. I wondered why I didn't have any. I wondered if it was a mistake, or if I'd done it on purpose, or what. And I noticed my therapist didn't have any children either. He had pictures of his cats on the wall. Framed.
chaos
Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.
real likes freak
I'm kind of this control freak that likes to create his own hells before the real one can get to him
stories way
One of the ways to reincarnate is to tell your story.
country travel home
I hadn't had a perfect moment yet. And it's very important for me to have perfect moments in exotic countries like that... it kind of lets you know when it's time to go home...
girlfriend pain teenage
I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to.