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Spalding Gray Biography

Spalding Rockwell Gray (June 5, 1941 – January 11, 2004) was an American actor and writer. He is best known for the autobiographical monologues that he wrote and performed for the theater in the 1980s and 1990s, as well as for his film adaptations of these works, beginning in 1987. He wrote and starred in several, working with different directors.

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

Doubt, Thing

The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode.

Crime, Explode, Face, Faces, New York, Thinking

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.

Class, Climbing, Having, Head, Sleep

I refer to jet lag as 'jet-psychosis - there's an old saying that the spirit cannot move faster than a camel.

Camels, Lag, Move, Moving, Old, Psychosis

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.

Breath, Breaths, Extensions, Musculature, Painter, Pen

I'm kind of this control freak that likes to create his own hells before the real one can get to him

Real, Likes, Freak, Control, Create

All the beautiful waitresses existed like eternal responsibilities.

Beautiful, Existed, Responsibility, Waitress, Waitresses

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.

Mother, Suicide, Waiting, Fantasizing, Darkly, Committed

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

Garbage, Home, Pail, Relax, Stopped

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

Famous, Inflexible, Money, Place, Stuck

I hadn't had a perfect moment yet. And it's very important for me to have perfect moments in exotic countries like that. . . it kind of lets you know when it's time to go home.

Country, Home, Moment, Perfect, Travel

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

New York, Rest, Thinking, United, Vegetable, Vegetables

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 would prefer to tell it because telling you're always in control, you're like God.

Artist, Cutting, Like, Live, Memories

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.

Crafts, Down, Live, Order, Real

Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.

Chaos, Complexity, Contingent, Everything

When I was in therapy about two years ago, one day I noticed that I hadn't had any children. And I like children at a distance. I wondered if I'd like them up close. I wondered why I didn't have any. I wondered if it was a mistake, or if I'd done it on purpose, or what. And I noticed my therapist didn't have any children either. He had pictures of his cats on the wall. Framed.

Children, Wall, Mistake, Distance, Purpose