C. L. Gray Quotes

Like most writers I know, I love being on stage. I’ve sublimated the dramatic urge by teaching and by making people laugh.

The choice between starving and being eaten is an exotic one.

Oh, save me God, but not quite yet.

I think we're much more eager to know about our parents than we were in the seventies.

I didn't find this memoir of these two eccentric people so different from doing my memoirs of De Sade or Simone Weil. My parents in their own way are as odd as Sade.

I think it's one of the reasons I wrote my book later in life. My parents didn't have these extreme alternations of conduct. They were very sweet to me.

Mine [parents] started out more from scratch, because I'm constantly aware of what they suffered in the war.

If I were ever to go mad it would be on Thanksgiving Day, that day of guilt and grace when the family hangs upon you like an ax over a sacrificial victim, like the oven's heat on that poor bird.

Lovers, children, heroes, none of them do we fantasize as extravagantly as we fantasize our parents.

The vast Pacific ocean would always remain the islanders' great solace, escape and nourishment, the amniotic fluid that would keep them hedonistic and aloof, guarded, gentle and mysterious.

"Mad Men" - it seems like they try to capture this glamorized version of the '50s and '60s advertising culture.

One of the things, universally, that psychologists found with hijackers in the early '70s was that they all struggled with women.

There's an obsession, within our culture, with the genteel thief. Somebody who commits a crime, but does it in a classy way.

I am calling on everyone in this state to put the chaos and the division of the recall behind us and do what's right for this great state of California.

I have not been briefed.

The audience cares what the movie looks like, not about the sleepless night you had worrying about the thing getting developed.

You should just write the movie based on people you actually know and then just see who wants to play it. Cast the net.

If we continue as we have for the past 20 years in California, in the year 2020, everybody in the State will either be in prison or running one.

Life affirming doesn't mean good things happen.

Actors want to work with you but they want you to do their thing. Actors, whom I love with a blind partiality, sometimes they want to be soloists in the symphony, not a part of the orchestra.

As precious as knowledge itself is the learning. As precious as any reward is the earning.

That love motivates you to cooperate, respect, appreciate, cherish, and admire that person.

Anything that makes you feel good is always going to be drawing in more.

One of the criteria by which we measure the worth of public figures is whether or not their brand of bull is in step with the current Zeitgeist.

We're actors, we have to do what we have to do, and you have to be really solid within yourself.

It is not about being thin. It is about staying healthy and fit. I need to live a long time to fulfil all the things I want to do. I want to be walking around at 90.

I am not obsessive about anything except my health.

I always tell people that my life is in pencil; I have to keep an eraser in my hand because I could always get a call that could change everything.

Writing is magic because it harnesses the energy generated by the chaos within.

I'm extremely blessed because I travel extensively for my work, but I always try to incorporate a bit of leisure with business.

I feel better if I exercise and eat healthily.

I think people love shows that are relationship-oriented. I think they love family shows.

When you're little all the things that are quirky and weird about you and that people laugh at, you find out are the things that are going to get you through

My voice is definitely a big present for me from God, because it's not like I can even take credit for it.

I just love being on stage and I love making music, and as far as - it's great for narcissism, because you have all those people screaming out your name.

I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.

I write in the studio.

Being God would be the ultimate.

You can see the relief on Falcao's shoulders.

My friends love to tease me about the fact that I won't be able to drive until I'm a sophomore in college.

You can say anything you want about how the brain works and people will believe you. Really, our brains are hard-wired like that.

If you can't see the bright side, why ya just need to polish the dull one.

In my experience, the worst thing you can do to an important problem is to discuss it.

Thought would destroy their paradise.

What female heart can gold despise? What cat 's averse to fish?

How low, how little are the proud, How indigent the great!

Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust, or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death?

And truth severe, by fairy fiction drest.

Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor.

The language of the age is never the language of poetry, except among the French, whose verse, where the thought or image does not support it, differs in nothing from prose.