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
stuck
To be famous is to be stuck in an inflexible place. But at least it is to be stuck with money.
good-love people laughing
If I can make people laugh it's like being a good lover.
suicide mother waiting
I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.
sleep climbing class
And just as I was climbing into that first-class seat, and wrapping myself in a blanket, just as I was adjusting my pillow behind my head, and having a sip of that champagne, and just as I was bringing down and adjusting my Thai purple sleep mask, I had an inkling. I had a flash. I suddenly thought I knew what it was that had killed Marilyn Monroe.
decipher pleasure stay yorkers
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 do what has to be done to enjoy, stay alive, take pleasure in this place.