Patti Smith
speaker
369 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 1 Dec
Patti Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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as I would start to engage her in topics is how little I had asked this only child, single mother, who raised me an only child.
And yet, I hadn't asked her
Why did you, from this tiny town in Mississippi, think, I'm going to be an actor.
That's what I want to do.
What was the first movie that inspired you?
Who were the actors you fell in love with?
Given that I became an actor as well, and we worked together, as you mentioned a number of times, wouldn't that be a natural conversation?
It never came up.
Things as seemingly mundane as favorite foods, favorite colors, favorite flowers that were just to pass the time.
It moved me so much how little the people in our most intimate relationships, how little we ask.
And I know her emotionally, but I never asked where those feelings stemmed from.
Yeah.
I want to play a scene you did with your mother in the HBO series Enlightened.
I'm not going to set up the whole story.
I will just say that you had basically a ragey, nervous breakdown at work.
And you go off to rehab in Hawaii where you learn to meditate.
And you return home
changed by it.
You've learned to meditate to calm the rage and anger and to center yourself and focus.
And you come home with an exercise that you're supposed to write a letter to somebody who you have difficulty communicating with.
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