Spalding Gray Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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... It was tolerant. It was a place that tolerated differences and could incorporate them and embrace them, which was what America was supposed to be about and wasn't.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 actor at Emerson College, and I use that training to play myself.”

“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 .”

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

“Radio allowed me to be a creator, and TV stole that creation from me by literalizing - and to some extent limiting - my vision.”

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

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

“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.”