Gloria Vanderbilt Quotes - Page 2

The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.

I like to repaint rooms, to redecorate. My dream would be to have pieds-à-terre in various places.

I don't like cold people at all. It makes me feel really insecure.

I do think all art is autobiographical, and I do think I know quite a bit about women. I don't know anything about men.

Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.

When I'm traveling to promote my book, I feel like an artful impostor. What I really am is when I'm in my (painter's) studio and when I'm writing. With actors, it's the same thing. They're kind of artful impostors in public. When you get to know them, they're different people.

Cats are so interesting - endlessly fascinating.

Sinatra created a kind of magic. You want those people to be part of your life.

The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you

...that is the best-to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.

I was born during an eclipse. I believe very much in astrology. If you were born on an eclipse it indicates your destiny is chaotic.

Even death is wonderful because, as Woody Allen says, we're not going to know when it happens.

To be pregnant has been for me each time the supreme joy ... I was doing the greatest thing in the world without having to do anything -- all I had to do was be.

I don't categorize myself as an 85-year-old woman who has written an erotic novel. I categorize myself as a writer who's written an erotic novel.

I don't think age has anything to do with what you write about.

Many times, working is kind of like channeling, and I really don't know what's going to fall on the page. I just did this image of a fat girl and put her on a tiny mountain peak of grass that she's walking over. It just amused me.

I don't read anything about myself. As a child, there was something in me that was just instinctive. I want to be clear in my spirit, and I don't want to be blocked by things that get inside of you and kill you.

In anything there has to be dark and light. There's a lot of joy in my paintings and a lot of darkness.

And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to belong to my mother. And in return - I wanted my mother to belong to me.

A home is very, very important to me. But I do change things around a lot.

When I started travelling, I would go to a city and be on television and I used to get the question, 'Why do you work? If I were you, I'd just go and lie on a beach somewhere.' And I'd answer, 'Well, I wanted to make something of my life.

I'm a ham. I always like to answer spontaneously.

I was fearless. Wild horses couldn't stop me.

I love to decorate and redecorate. Now it's called interior design, but the term decorating is fine with me.

If you don't have a father, you don't miss it, because you don't know what it is. It was really only when I married Wyatt Cooper that I understood what it was like to have a father, because he was just an extraordinary father.