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… — Spalding Gray Copy Share Image
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. — Spalding Gray Copy Share Image
When Mom had her first nervous breakdown, she said she had a vision of Christ coming to her in the living room. — Spalding Gray Copy Share Image
“It could drive you mad to wake up to the fact that your whole life has been about chasing some false goal.” — Spalding Gray Copy Share Image
“And in this role (the Stage Manager) I could speak from my heart, you know!....provided I can memorize the lines.” — Spalding Gray Copy Share Image
How theraputic it is to surrond yourself with people stranger than yourself. — Spalding Gray Copy Share Image
I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that… — Spalding Gray Copy Share Image
What's so fascinating about New Yorkers is that each person has a whole lexicon of personal logic in the way that they decipher and… — Spalding Gray Copy Share Image
Skiing is better than sex actually, because for me a good round of sex might be seven minutes. Skiing you can do for seven… — Spalding Gray Copy Share Image
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.… — Spalding Gray Copy Share Image
I'm the man who sits behind a table and tells true stories from his life. I'm also an actor. I was trained as an… — Spalding Gray Copy Share Image
