When people used to ask me why I got involved with Hollywood films, I would say jokingly that it was for the health insurance. Spalding Gray Read Quote
Radio allowed me to be a creator, and TV stole that creation from me by literalizing – and to some extent limiting – my vision. Spalding Gray Read Quote
When I first came to New York City in 1967, I joined up with Richard Schechner’s Performance Group – where we worked in the Performing Garage in SoHo. Spalding Gray Read Quote
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. Spalding Gray Read Quote
When Mom had her first nervous breakdown, she said she had a vision of Christ coming to her in the living room. Spalding Gray Read Quote
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. Spalding Gray Read Quote
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. Spalding Gray Read Quote
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. Spalding Gray Read Quote
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. Spalding Gray Read Quote
