Spalding Gray Quotes

All the beautiful waitresses existed like eternal responsibilities.

Spalding Gray

• Beautiful
• Responsibility
• Waitress

Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.

Spalding Gray

• Chaos

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.

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• Real
• Order
• Crafts

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.

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• Painter
• Breaths
• Pens

If I can make people laugh it's like being a good lover.

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• People
• Laughing

I think of my father and how confused he was by me. He understood my love for theater, and he understood that New York City was the only place that it was happening in America, really, in any live way.

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• Love
• Confused
• Understood

I'm basically a fearful person. I'm a phobic person.

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• Fearful
• Phobic

When people used to ask me why I got involved with Hollywood films, I would say jokingly that it was for the health insurance.

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• People
• Health
• Involved

I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup.

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• Thinking
• Vegetables

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.

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• Thinking
• Memories
• Cutting

One of the ways to reincarnate is to tell your story.

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• Way
• Stories