I love biographies. I'm especially into stuff about Hollywood in the '40s and '50s. I find it fascinating and terrifying.
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I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.
I hate biographies which say, I was called to such and such an office, and he offered me so and so, and I got so and so money. I find that very tedious. The best biographies are written by other people.
I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.
I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In art school, I read 'Close to the Knives,' the autobiography of the artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz.
I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.
Most of the stories I read are about my Hollywood pedigree.
My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug 'Vanity Fair.' You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it.
I am a huge fan of biographies. What I'm always looking for is a story. I want a story I have never heard from anyone else.
I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them.
My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that.
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