Spalding Gray Quotes
When people used to ask me why I got involved with Hollywood films, I would say jokingly that it was for the health insurance.
Quotes to Explore
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.
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I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.
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I have always looked up to Adele and Christina Aguilera as singers ever since I was very young, and now my favorite male singer is Hozier.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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I approach 'Fast & Furious 6' the same way I would approach a Sidney Lumet film. Getting into character's getting into character.
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
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A library implies an act of faith.
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I don't think France is a racist country, I really don't, but we do still have many problems with our immigrant past, and there's a shame that goes with that, that works both ways, in the host and in the post-immigrant generation.
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Because Social Security has not contributed to our debt, Americans should be skeptical of any politician who says that benefits Americans have earned must be reduced in order to address our national debt.
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The joke that I make is that there are instances on the TV series that happen to me, - except on Sex and the City they always make it better or worse than real life and I am actually saying that in a joking way.
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Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
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I think the glue that held 'Fringe' together was the relationships.
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One of the great things about Churchill is that he had the guts to say the unpalatable, to level with the people, even if it cost him politically to tell them the truth.
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I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare. I actually want to do this Shakespeare play in New York, but I think it's interesting that there's this gaping hole in the repertoire in the American theater, which is Shakespeare. It's hardly ever done, compared to how often it's done in other companies, not just Britain. Someone from the Roundabout Theater Company - I said, "You never do Shakespeare." And he said, "Yes, we're not very good at it." And I thought, "What a terrible thing to say.".
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When people used to ask me why I got involved with Hollywood films, I would say jokingly that it was for the health insurance.
