It`s different things at different times, you know? It`s like when you read a true crime story and think it`s really good, then the next book you pick up is a biography and you really like that. I don`t consider that I have to judge any of the movies I ma...
Teri Garr
[talking about a severe coughing attack she had when she was six weeks old, slowly turning blue and finally stopping breathing until her mother`s prayers and spanking brought her back to life] If I were to write a biography, it would start like this: I wa...
Audrey Hepburn
I started out as a guitarist in the early Eighties. I hooked up with a guy who idolized James Dean and he gave me a copy of the Dean biography, `The Mutant King`, which I thought was really interesting. While reading the book, I watched Rebel Without a Ca...
Johnny Depp
[To Bill Takacs (an IMDb biography writer), who in 1979 met him on a flight to New York from Johannesburg, South Africa (he had been performing in nearby Swaziland) and who addressed him as Mr. Evans (his real name)] "Don`t call me Mr. Evans; only my mini...
Chubby Checker
On "Foster Child", her brother Buddy Foster`s unauthorized biography about her: "A cheap cry for attention and money filled with hazy recollections, fantasies and borrowed press releases. Buddy has done nothing but break our mother`s heart his whole life....
Jodie Foster
[referring to both the film release of "Mommie Dearest" (Mommie Dearest (1981)), the biography of Joan Crawford written by her daughter Christina Crawford, and the equally scathing book about Bette Davis, written by her daughter] Now I know why tigers eat...
Bob Hope
[her reaction to Suzanne Finstad`s 1996 biography of her, "Child Bride"] Talk about 5 minutes [of fame]! There are people in that book I`ve never even heard of. That woman made me out to be some kind of prostitute. I dated. But that was just my life . . .
Priscilla Presley
[on why it took ten years to finish the script for Mala educación, La (2004)] [It] deals with my own biography . . . it took time to remove myself from it. Now it`s not me. I changed the tone of the story, but the main situation is the same.
Pedro Almodovar
I`m looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody...
David Bowie
Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization.
Albert Guerard
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
Alan Christensen
There`s an overwhelming amount of material, ... You have to choose. It`s a creative act, and also subjective, so the author of a biography paints his or her own portrait. And you want to make that an interesting read and well written.
Ann Marie Tallman
The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one`s biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island.
Alan Thompson
That is one of the problems with oral biography, in that many different points of view are offered: contradictions, refutations, and so on.
George Plimpton
People think that because a novel`s invented, it isn`t true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that.
Anthony Powell
Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.
Robert Hall
King Juan Carlos would be worthy of a full biography as a major player in his country`s history. Alas, my Spanish is not good enough to offer myself!
Antonia Fraser
Biography is the only true history
Thomas Carlyle
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