Following the trend of Romanticism, which greatly emphasised the role and the nature of the individual, and in the footsteps of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions, a more intimate form of autobiography, exploring the subject's emotions, came into fashion.

In addition to acting and occasionally directing, Campbell has become a writer, starting with an autobiography, If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor published on August 24, 2002.

As a religious autobiography, Rufus Jones compared it to such works as Augustine's Confessions and John Bunyan's Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners.

Rousseau's autobiographical writings — his Confessions, which initiated the modern autobiography, and his Reveries of a Solitary Walker — exemplified the late 18th-century movement known as the Age of Sensibility, featuring an increasing focus on subjectivity and introspection that has characterized the modern age.

Examples include the poet Algernon Swinburne ( as implied repeatedly in his poetry ) and the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as detailed in his autobiography Confessions:

Apart from the fact that Rousseau ascribes these words to an unknown princess — vaguely referred to as a " great princess ", there is some level of thought that he invented it altogether, seeing as Confessions was, on the whole, a rather inaccurate autobiography.

His Confessions is perhaps the first true autobiography, and it gave rise to the genre of confessional literature which is now more popular than ever.

Clooney made his directorial debut in the 2002 film Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, an adaptation of the autobiography of TV producer Chuck Barris.

In the later years of his life, Hobson published his autobiography, Confessions of an Economic Heretic ( 1938 ), and expressed hope that the USA would join World War Two.

In Barris's self-described " unauthorized autobiography " Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, originally published in 1984, Barris claimed to have worked for the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) as an assassin in the 1960s and the 1970s.

In his autobiography, Confessions of a Happy Man ( 1960 ), he revealed that he had no contact with his natural parents or his sister or two brothers since he was abandoned when only a few weeks old.

Though the result is a landmark in the development of emotional autobiography ( the most important advance since Saint Augustine's Confessions in the 5th century ), like all medieval literature it is far removed from the modern autobiographical impulse.

In his autobiography If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor, cult star Bruce Campbell recalls a roommate who had a poorly functioning record player.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in his autobiography Confessions ( published posthumously in 1782, but completed in 1769 ), relates that " a great princess " is said to have advised, with regard to peasants who had no bread, " Qu ' ils mangent de la brioche ", commonly inaccurately translated as " Let them eat cake ".

His autobiography, Confessions of a Theologian was published in 1986.

His two-volume autobiography, titled The Confessions of a Caricaturist was published in 1902, and a further volume of personal recollections and anecdotes, Harry Furniss At Home, was published in 1904.

Kaufman also penned the screenplay for Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, a biopic based on the " unauthorized autobiography " of Chuck Barris, the creator of such popular game shows as The Dating Game and host of The Gong Show.

* Confessions ( Jean-Jacques Rousseau ), an autobiography by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

* Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-in-Chic Peek Behind the Pose, an autobiography by Paris Hilton

* The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, an autobiography subtitled " An Autohagiography "

In his first autobiography, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind ( 1988 ), Barris claimed that The Dating Game was a cover for his CIA activities, and was promoted by the CIA.

In 2010, Arngrim published her autobiography, titled Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated.

* Confessioni di uno scomunicato (" Confessions of an Excommunicated Catholic ") ( 2008 ), an autobiography

Neil's account of this event is documented in Mötley Crüe's 2001 autobiography The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band.

Simon Callow discusses his interpretation of the role in his autobiography, Being an Actor.

Farrell wrote an autobiography, Just Call Me Mike: A Journey to Actor and Activist ( ISBN 1933354089 ), published in 2007.

Sir John Gielgud's autobiography, An Actor and His Time is dedicated " To Ralph and Mu Richardson, with gratitude and affection ".

Towards the end of his life Le Mesurier wrote his autobiography, A Jobbing Actor ; the book was published in 1984, after his death.

He is the author of an autobiography, as well as a volume Sacred Masks: Behind the Mask of the Horror Actor which explores the history of masks in society, and their applications in horror films.

Alexander Granach's autobiography, There Goes an Actor ( 1945 ) was republished in 2010 under the new title, From the Shtetl to the Stage: The Odyssey of a Wandering Actor ( Transaction Publishers ).

The English translation of his autobiography The Path of the Actor was edited by Andrei Kirillov and Bella Merlin, and was published by Routledge in 2005, marking the 50th anniversary of his death.

He released an autobiography titled Glyn Houston, A Black and White Actor in December 2009.

In his autobiography, Olivier described his " grievous anguish " as he immediately travelled to Leigh's residence, to find that Merivale had moved her body on to the bed.

In his autobiography Olivier later wrote that he was smitten with Esmond, and that her cool indifference to him did nothing but further his ardour.

Derek Salberg's autobiography " Much Ado About Theatre " had its foreword written by Laurence Olivier.

The Detroit press was not so kind regarding the Yom Kippur decision, nor were many fans, but Greenberg in his autobiography recalled that he received a standing ovation from congregants at the Shaarey Zedek synagogue when he arrived.

Liverpool played in all red for the first time against Anderlecht, as Ian St. John recalled in his autobiography:

'" Singer Johnny Cash recalled acting in one episode, and although he was not an experienced actor, he writes in his autobiography, " Peter Falk was good to me.

Benaud erroneously recalled in an autobiography that this was his maiden wicket — it was his fourth — and described the ball as " the worst I ever bowled ".

In his autobiography, Berle recalled the incident:

As he recalled in his autobiography, As I Saw It, Rusk did not have a good relationship with President Kennedy.

At this time Oxford separated male and female students as far as possible ; Vera Brittain, one of the Somerville students, recalled an amusing occurrence during her time there in her autobiography, Testament of Youth ;

In his autobiography given to the Nobel Prize Committee, he recalled, " The first stirrings of interest in science that I remember occurred during a moment of boredom at religious school, when, looking out of the window at twilight through a hand curled to simulate a telescope, I noticed something peculiar about the light ; it was the phenomenon of diffraction.

In his autobiography many years later, Colley Cibber recalled the power of her voice: " When distress of Tenderness possess'd her, she subsided into the most affecting Melody and Softness.

In his autobiography, he recalled that he had felt that his time at Geneva was " wasted " by being at the small Episcopalian school, instead of at " one of the larger New England universities ".

However, in her autobiography Fliegen, mein Leben, Reitsch recalled other test pilots had been killed or gravely injured while trying to land the piloted version of the V1 ( known as the Reichenberg ), so she made test flights late in the war to learn why and found the craft's extremely high stall speed was thwarting the pilots, who had no experience landing at extremely high speeds.

Mary Pickford recalled in her autobiography that she felt a wave of premonition that came over her while watching her brother leave.

Super Bowl XIII, the rematch, featured Cowboys Linebacker Thomas " Hollywood " Henderson saying famously " Terry Bradshaw couldn't spell c-a-t if you spotted him the C and the T ." Landry recalled in his autobiography how he cringed when he heard that, because he didn't feel that Bradshaw needed addition motivation in a big game like the Super Bowl.

Linda Arvidson, Griffith's wife recalled in her autobiography, When The Movies Were Young:

Carlyle's autobiography recalled the Porteous Riots of 1736, and his friendship with Adam Smith, David Hume, Charles Townshend and John Home, the dramatist, for witnessing the performance of whose tragedy Douglas he was censured in 1757.

" Sir Henry Wood, who had been répétiteur for the production, recalled in his autobiography that " Carte had had a repertory of six operas instead of only one, I believe he would have established English opera in London for all time.

His friend Duke Ellington recalled Eckstine's artistry in his 1973 autobiography Music is My Mistress: " Eckstine-style love songs opened new lines of communication for the man in the man-woman merry-go-round, and blues a la B were the essence of cool.

In her 1952 autobiography, The Long Loneliness, Day recalled that immediately after her baptism she made her first Confession and the following day she made her First Communion.

" Geronimo later recalled in his autobiography that his people were winning the fight until " you fired your wagons at us.

As Shankly recalled in his autobiography, " people would move to other villages where the mines were possibly better ".

Liverpool's recovery depended on new players being acquired and, in his autobiography, Shankly recalled the struggles he had with the board to make them realise the club's potential and the need to spend money on good players.

Sakai, who did not know Southerland's guns had jammed, recalled the duel in his autobiography:

Actress Colleen Dewhurst, who played Kate the shrew, recalled the beginning of the shift in fortune ( in an autobiography published posthumously as a collaboration with Tom Viola ): " With Brooks Atkinson's blessing, our world changed overnight.

Boycott recalled in his autobiography that when Denness confronted him on the issue he replied " Get out of here before I do something I'll regret.