Spalding Gray

When Mom had her first nervous breakdown, she said she had a vision of Christ coming to her in the living room.

— Spalding Gray

“It could drive you mad to wake up to the fact that your whole life has been about chasing some false goal.”

— Spalding Gray

“And in this role (the Stage Manager) I could speak from my heart, you know!....provided I can memorize the lines.”

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How theraputic it is to surrond yourself with people stranger than yourself.

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I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was…

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

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What's so fascinating about New Yorkers is that each person has a whole lexicon of personal logic in the way that they…

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All the beautiful waitresses existed like eternal responsibilities.

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Skiing is better than sex actually, because for me a good round of sex might be seven minutes. Skiing you can do…

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I say that I can't make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I'm cutting and pasting memories of…

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I'm the man who sits behind a table and tells true stories from his life. I'm also an actor. I was trained…

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The only thing I don't doubt is my doubt.

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He won't fly on the Balinese airline, Garuda, because he won't fly on any airline where the pilots believe in reincarnation.

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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…

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When I was in therapy about two years ago, one day I noticed that I hadn't had any children. And I like…

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I knew I couldn't live in America, and I wasn't ready to move to Europe, so I moved to an island off…

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Real life has always let me down. That's why I do the monologues. I have always said I would rather tell a…

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I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to…

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The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just…

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To be famous is to be stuck in an inflexible place. But at least it is to be stuck with money.

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

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Radio allowed me to be a creator, and TV stole that creation from me by literalizing - and to some extent limiting…

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When I first came to New York City in 1967, I joined up with Richard Schechner's Performance Group - where we worked…

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I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good…

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I consulted a therapist at Mass. General. After about 20 minutes, he stopped me and said, 'You're just a big existential garbage…

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