Virginia Woolf Quotes

When you're a biographer, you want to explore the very things that your subject didn't care to talk about.

And then there is our personal history. Memories only we share. Things not another living soul would understand.

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

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

Everything has been written. Everybody knows everything about me. There are no secrets. Except the skeletons in my closet.

I'm a private person in many ways.

There's a line I have that our family was designed more for public than for private. But there are definitely some things that are only mine. I am someone who dreams at night, and you don't know what I'm dreaming.

Publicly, I've never talked about Argentina.

Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.

There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk of you.

There's nothing more interesting than the details of someone's life.

You don't know that you'll ever have to talk about the skeleton in your closet.

I try to always go for something... very interior, following thoughts and memories, something that I think is difficult to do on the screen, which is essentially a third-person medium.

No one is reading my diary, that's for sure.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

I don't keep diaries anymore; They're quite incriminating. I just keep all the dirt road diaries in my head.

I'm a private person. And I have a certain way in which I protect myself. I don't openly wear my feelings.

My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me.

Every song brings back memories, like I remember where I wrote all these songs. 'Universal Heartbeat' was my apartment in New York City. 'My Sister' was at my apartment in Boston. I remember places and I remember what I was thinking when I wrote it.

Each individual human being has a lot of stuff that nobody knows about. Nobody knows what anybody else is going through at any point in their lives.

I knew that there was a great deal of depth and life that was sitting just beyond my mother's gaze.

I was always a storyteller. I just didn't know it. I never shared the stories I made up inside my head when I was growing up. I never wrote them down, either. But I can't remember a time when they weren't there.

I was a go-go dancer, too. I called myself 'Grace Mendoza' to fool my parents.

I was going to write an autobiography once. I started writing it, and then I thought, 'No, let them dig around when I'm dead.'

A lot of people don't know this about me but actually I started in politics.