QUOTES by Joel Grey
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A lot of people have problems thinking of you doing more than one thing. If you do one thing, then you couldn't possibly do another thing well. Of course, we know that's not so.
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That's what people forget about, is that when things are very, very powerful in a sad way, they have that possibility of also being over-the-top, hysterically funny.
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I saw Lee J. Cobb in 'Death of a Salesman' when I was about 15, and I couldn't get up from my seat in the theater; I was so... I was weeping, and I was upset. And I find that people are still like that in a similar circumstance in a theater today, where they just can't get up. It's too heartbreaking.
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I'm essentially an actor. And the fact that I got away with singing and dancing for a long time is still a miracle to me.
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I was accepted to UCLA, but at the same time, I had a job offer at Chicago's Chez Paree nightclub. My father, being a practical man, felt I should take the job.
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There was always this idea that I would work on Shakespeare and some of the other classics, but it never came to be.
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The Yiddish language is so rich and unusual that I've always been hooked on its sounds, although I don't speak it.
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I used to eat Danny Kaye's food. I had his Chinese and Italian meals, and that was as good as it gets.
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The fundamental job of the actor is to tell about the human condition, to be a voice for the truest ideas and deepest emotions.
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I never think about my age very much. I've always lived my life the same way, full of excitement and anticipation of wonderful things and the knowledge that some not-so-wonderful things come with it.
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Eight times a week, I got to be a gay man, a remarkable gay man, and every night, that felt as full, as true, as passionate, and as authentic as I ever felt in my life.
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For me to take a role, I read a script, and I think, 'Wow, I don't know how I'm going to do this, but I want to try.'
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I was traumatized by a lot of childhood stuff. I felt that I was bad somewhere, starting with my birth.
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I came to realize, along with being attracted to girls, I had similar feelings for boys.
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There are problems in doing television that have been plaguing me for years. I really like to have a lot of time, to rehearse and make things as good as they can be, but television often doesn't allow for that.
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There's a lot going on in the world that's very disturbing: rewriting the Holocaust; pseudo-historians rewriting history itself. And we're dealing with a terrorist mentality that involves whole nations.
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You can be taking two steps forward as an actor, but if a movie doesn't make money, you might as well be taking two steps backwards. It's all about economics.
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Collaboration is about listening to someone else and adding your own feelings about that thought.
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I wasn't sure what it would take to make it in the theater, but despite the struggle, that was all I ever really wanted.
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The theater is the place where people create ideas and send messages out, and you learn, and I think it's a fair venue for disagreement and enlightenment.
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Acting always affects every part of your life because it's such a solitary, lonely, and thrilling circumstance that you're taking on someone else's character and that responsibility. It's exhausting.
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I loved being in the theater. It was a place of enormous excitement and happiness and safety and respect and dignity. It was a place where, if you did your job, you weren't a kid - you were a full person worthy of respect from all the adults in the company.
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Satisfying as that 'Cabaret' role was, it is not the only thing I do. But Hollywood is somewhat limited in its perspective about what it is you do or don't do.
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I worked with a lot of leading ladies: Bebe Neuwirth, Anne Rankin, Bernadette Peters, Liza Minnelli. They're all phenomenal talents.
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When I read a script, the important thing is that I can connect in some way with that character and have some idea from what his story is that I can tell that story too, because that's all acting is, is storytelling.
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I always wanted children, to be a dad. That was as important to me as being an actor.
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I think everything that happens to you becomes a part of what you end up doing and being and standing for.
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I really didn't feel that my motion picture career was going the way I wanted it to go.
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I'm enormously sympathetic to talented people who have few roles to choose from.
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I was small growing up, and to make matters worse, I wore glasses, and my mother dressed me in attention-getting outfits. I was a target of bullies.
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