Autobiography Quotes

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.

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography.

When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.

My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives.

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.

I caught a cold and didn't have time to work on my autobiography.

I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.

'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world - God and yourself. The Bible is the story of God and man, a love story in which you and I must write our own ending, our unfinished autobiography of the creature and the Creator.

The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.

I spent most of this afternoon writing a new introduction for my autobiography.

American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going.

I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences.

And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years.

I would like to read some books: I don't have time; I would like to continue working on my autobiography.

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

But, Tarantino has seen all of my movies. He's seen my good stuff, he's seen my bad stuff, he's seen the ones I directed, he's read my autobiography. There's an awful lot of things he knows about me, all of which I think had something to do with his casting.

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

The book is called 'Thanks for Nothing' and it's really the story of how I got into comedy and traces back every strand in my life that is relevant to that story. It's kind of an autobiography but isn't, as it stops about 25 years ago. It goes right up to the first time I do stand up.

I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography.

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, 'Why don't you write your autobiography?'

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory.

An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.