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
stories way
One of the ways to reincarnate is to tell your story.
chaos
Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.
travel new-york moving
I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City .
doubt
The only thing I don't doubt is my doubt.
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.
painter breaths pens
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.
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.
girlfriend pain teenage
I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to.
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.
beautiful responsibility waitress
All the beautiful waitresses existed like eternal responsibilities.
travel believe pilots
He won't fly on the Balinese airline, Garuda, because he won't fly on any airline where the pilots believe in reincarnation.
sex might skiing
Skiing is better than sex actually, because for me a good round of sex might be seven minutes. Skiing you can do for seven hours.
confused happening love understood york
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.