American - Actor | April 11, 1932 -
I love 'Cabaret' and 'George M!' They're both incredible as far as I'm concerned.
Joel Grey
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I don't want to do material that I don't like. I've always stuck to that policy. If that means being out of work for awhile, that's fine with me.
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You are either visual or you're not.
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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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I don't look like Brad Pitt.
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I thought 'The Humans' was a beautiful play.
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My mother named me after her favorite actor, Joel McCrea, and dressed and presented me as her avatar. I'm sure she wanted to be a performer, but when that was impossible, I was her next best shot.
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My mother loved fashion. She was a beauty and had enough sewing skills that she could re-create the looks in magazines. She also was enormously charismatic.
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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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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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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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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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