Merle Haggard Quotes

A film of my life would never happen!

Hollywood have been in touch; they want to make a movie of my life.

I couldn't even contemplate anyone even making a film about my life!

I am planning my one woman show. It will be a showcase of my life. It starts at the beginning and ends where I am today. It will have every single inch of my life - as much as you can get into an hour. I will be touring everywhere.

My experience of being on the public platform got more multi-faceted, multi-dimensional, and my place in the public eye, I think, has always been a little more than just what is going on in that time in my life.

To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.

All my interesting stories are from before I was on television. Nothing interesting has happened to me since then. Maybe it's because the most interesting thing in my life is the show and that's on telly.

Though my stories aren't autobiographical, I do sometimes use things from my life.

I take a whole life story and compress it into three minutes.

Not to be too 'Tale of Two Cities' about it, but I find writing a memoir easier than writing fiction, and more difficult.

I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because people's lives don't have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying.

It is quite surreal having a film made about your life. The whole process of turning real life into drama is interesting in itself, but even more so when it is your own life being put into the narrative forge.

An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end.

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

I always say that in any roomful of people, I could hive a novel out of any one person's family or life story.

I'm just basically telling a story of my life.

We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life.

'Shantaram' is the second in the series of a quartet of novels that I have planned about my life but is the first to be written. The third book is a sequel to 'Shantaram,' the first a prequel.

I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.

I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

I can't see an autobiography in my future. But who knows what might happen.

If you look at my rap sheet, it's very long.

Memoir is a difficult literary form to pull off when dealing with discrete and poignant moments in a life, even harder when seeking to narrate over 80 years of existence.

I will surely pen my autobiography.

I would love to act in a film if it is based on my life. But then it all depends on who is making it and how much time it would require for me to shoot.