American - Actress | October 31, 1925 -
What goes on between a father and a son, which is usually such a private matter, is that they are able to be honest with each other, and be honest with me, as a director. It's just remarkable.
Lee Grant
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When I became a director, I wanted to convince a very reluctant Sidney into allowing me to go on the journey of his life. Sidney had gone ahead of every other African American actor.
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You don't need a love scene to show love.
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I pretty much always stuck to the most interesting part I could play.
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I've made a five-minute video on 'The Battering of Hillary Clinton.'
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Since I'd developed this fear of not remembering my lines, I took 'Mulholland Drive' as a test for myself. It was a long monologue: no one else speaks.
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I was such a New Yorker, I hardly knew what the Oscars were.
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I was such a Jewish princess. My whole life was leading up to marrying a rich man and living on 48th Street.
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The best actors just stay in the moment,and whatever happens in the scene is a genuine surprise. You really do not know what's going to happen next. But living that out in life is very dangerous because it throws you into a place where you don't know if you're going to survive.
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I was 22, and 40 was old. To be 40 again!
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You can take your life into your own hands in terms of directing. There are ways for you to finance yourself and to write and make a film.
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When I was on stage in the '50s, it was a glory time, a golden time with Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. There was real talent. And now, the theater is a little Disney-fied.
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