American - Actor | April 11, 1932 -
I'm always interested in the challenge of doing something new.
Joel Grey
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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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I was totally delighted, interested in, and amused by my stint on 'Voyager.'
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Theater is the most important thing in life for me.
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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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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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After my bar mitzvah, I started to assimilate, to really not pay attention to my roots. The anti-Semitic experiences of my youth had been very painful. You try to put all that in the past and become a person of the world. I think that's the right thing to do. But it's not right to leave out who you really are. That's a tragedy.
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My father was a musician and wanted me to study piano. I had no interest.
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When I was eight, I went to the theatre, and I remember looking at the stage afterward and pointing and saying, 'I want to do that.' I don't think that's ever changed.
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Larry Hagman and I are very old friends.
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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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I really did start a whole way of thinking about musical theater.
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