An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.
George Orwell
In response to an invitation to write an autobiography - "Books written by actresses are for the birds. Besides what would I write?...that somebody was looking for an Italian type to play the ingenue in a film and I might do?"
Claudette Colbert
[when asked in 2003 interview whether he was born in 1947 or 1951] "1951. I have it on my passport and driving licence. [I said 1947 in my autobiography] because I just wanted to maintain a constant lie. I was born in 1951 but see what a great thing it is...
Meat Loaf
Charles Laughton and his wife, Elsa Lanchester, were never blessed with children. Years after he died, Elsa wrote her autobiography and claimed they never had children because Laughton was homosexual. That`s rubbish. Whether or nor Laughton was gay would ...
Maureen O`Hara
My approach to the work is the same, whether I had the lead or a supporting role. I consider myself a character actor in the true sense of the word. Unless I`m doing my autobiography, I`m playing a character.
Ving Rhames
[on why he never wrote an autobiography] Those who like me already know me, and those who don`t like me wouldn`t want to read about me anyway.
John Wayne
[On her "autobiography"] "There`s a lot of stuff that happened to me when I was kinda young. Like when I was just 12, or 13 or so. It might really shock some people. It`s an interesting part of my life, I hope it`s in the book, I didn`t check whether they...
Katie Price
I`m not in any way homophobic, but I just hung around that whole scene. I grew up in the center of London, and the best clubs were always the gay clubs. Quoted after rumors sparked that he was gay after an insinuation in Boy George`s 1995 autobiography.
Gavin Rossdale
I turned into my own worst enemy. - Peppard said about his drinking after ex-wife Elizabeth Ashley wrote about it in her 1978 autobiography.
George Peppard
I have no plans to write an autobiography, I will leave that to others. I`m sure they will turn me into a homosexual or a Nazi spy or something else. (1981)
Cary Grant
I said I never would [do an autobiography] and then I thought about it and I said, "I`m going to do it". Then I started. Yeah, and it cost me a stonking amount of money not to do it - because I`d already put the wheels in motion. He [Davies] started to ru...
Sean Connery
Yes, we know he liked a drink and we know he was homosexual, but he still remains a terribly, terribly private man. All I had to go on was a couple of interviews - one after Corbett (Harry H. Corbett) died - and Brambell`s autobiography. Unfortunately, th...
Philip Davis
Gardens are a form of autobiography.
Sydney Eddison
Subject: Gardens QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
