Kathy Griffin Quotes

All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

My music is about my life. If it's something that I've lived, then it's something that I've written about.

My concepts are never bright ideas; they're never notions I think will sell or be trendy or attract new fans. I don't think that way. All I can do is sing from my life.

I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves.

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

Recording is more autobiographical than acting. It's me - either how I'm feeling then or once felt at some point in my life. It's all me.

I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.

I feel at various times in my life that I've been at a point where I had to choose between a death sentence and a life sentence. And I want to live. What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? And the answer is always creativity. The answer is always art.

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.

My cinema is an extension of myself. A sort of life-testimony of my vital experience, with my few virtues and my numerous limitations.

I come out of real life.

I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary.

The only real inspiration or muse that I have is just the life that I live.

I don't feel I have to be Jackson Browne. Still, I like to say something.

I feel I'm following my path. I'm living my truth, and my path is storytelling.

I started music to be myself - to release and express - so I have to make sure that I'm staying true to me and making myself happy.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.

I think that some people like to be someone other than themselves when acting, while others are most themselves. I fall into the second camp. For me, acting is a great exercise in getting to the truth about myself.

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.

Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.