Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.
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.
I was raised to farm work.
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
I have a children's book already out and my autobiography.
When Shonda Rhimes writes her autobiography, it should be called How to Get Away With Being an Angry Black Woman.
All criticism is a form of autobiography
I’m not the smartest guy in the world, but I’m certainly not the dumbest. I mean, I’ve read books like "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and "Love in the Time of Cholera", and I think I’ve understood them. They’re about girls, right? Just kidding. But I have to say my all-time favorite book is Johnny Cash’s autobiography "Cash" by Johnny Cash.
'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.
The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document in a cave by the light of matches which keep blowing out.
What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great.
In writing the autobiography, I can really chuckle when I look at the songs. I was acting out the part. I saw myself as a victim.
Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me. So I had to take the situation and invent stories to go with it.
I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography.
I like to read. Autobiographies.
I've always had a sneaking fondness for Martin Van Buren. He wrote his autobiography, you know, and never once mentioned his wife. Now that's what I call a mans man.
I won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had had, I wouldn't tell anyone.
I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.
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.