Chris Campanioni Quotes & Sayings

I never was very good at acting. I never was very good at playing the role. Because the true pretending can only come off in our genuine awareness of the real. Only those of us with the most secure grasp on the real can pretend; can really be good at the performance. And of course I didn't know what was real; I only knew the camera was always on. — Chris Campanioni

Tangerine tango was still in. Cardigans without buttons were in. Bahia bands were in. Senhor do Bonfim. Make a wish? But hardly anyone considered the most radical move: be yourself. Beauty is always a revolutionary act. — Chris Campanioni

In the act of creation, as in all the arts, the soul should be felt in the face and the fingers and the tongue, even in the cavities. — Chris Campanioni

I wrote a trilogy out of order and then rearranged it, because the whole of life is like that
a cut-up
and when you cut into the present, the future leaks out. — Chris Campanioni

Nothing is more hip than a corpse. The style is timeless. Death is trending. — Chris Campanioni

To own beauty is the first lie of it. — Chris Campanioni

It's not enough to say it; you would need to take it out of your mouth, you would need to become it. You would need to become what you were born to be. — Chris Campanioni

Live a life worth reading about. Then write it. — Chris Campanioni

To be a writer and political is a dangerous thing. To be a writer and apolitical is even more dangerous. Art is right, left; in truth, it has only one direction and that is forward. — Chris Campanioni

The mist after rain, uninterrupted rainfall on rooftops, pitter-patter intellect. The thoughts I leave behind like footsteps. — Chris Campanioni

I couldn't decide whether it was better to be the art, or the artist. — Chris Campanioni

I walk by, seeing myself walk by on a bag, someone's hands gripping the paper handles above my neck, my curved waist, my gleam of sweat, me, half a block away, and think, you don't know self-fragmentation until it's staring you in the face. — Chris Campanioni

The whole world had become a stage, in which the props were continually shifting, four extras reprising the roles of twenty-four characters and people I'd never seen before playing my most beloved ones. — Chris Campanioni

It's television, after all. No one is dead, even when they die. — Chris Campanioni

Literature sustains life because it captures death in its forward march. Clickety-clickety-clack, the wheels go round and round ... — Chris Campanioni

The future is trash. Recycling it, re-arranging it. Making it beautiful again. — Chris Campanioni

Always being myself and my salve, which is life. I'm not lonely, if that's what it seems like. Always writing things down. — Chris Campanioni

And maybe I knew how to look at a person, that exact angle to display, the way to shift the light on my face, but now I looked vacant, empty, naked ... and for a fraction of a second - maybe more, maybe even a full second - I gave them fear, and finally, like a reel of film had been removed and I had to wait for another to be inserted, I smiled again. — Chris Campanioni

The convenient function of every celebrated machine for living is to produce machines to live in them. — Chris Campanioni

Half of life is pretending. The other half is pretending. — Chris Campanioni