Joel Grey Quotes

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.

Joel Grey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 11, 1932

Topics

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There's a power in women being women. There's a role for men, but we don't have to be men, because we're women. I think that representing that on television is a cool thing.

Jenna Elfman

WomenPowerMenCoolThinkRole

We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.

Andrew Jackson

DeterminationBeginningGovernment

Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society.

Michael Ignatieff

PatriotismSocietySecretSuccessful

When it comes right down to it, no, we're not religious at all.

Johnny Christ

DownRightReligious

When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero in every sketch.

Amy Poehler

ComedyDoingYouSketchLikeGiant

We had an old Victrola with the old bulldog they used to have there. The horn would come out.

Jay McShann

OldOutUsedComeWouldBulldog

Until Genevieve I had tended towards the more dramatic type of role.

Dinah Sheridan

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From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me.

Donald Kagan

HistoryTimeMyselfMeReadingBoy

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

Christopher Morley

NatureHabitManBlameUnfairBeing

I like to have a home for people just to have a lot of fun.

Chelsea Handler

HomeFunPeopleJustLikeLot

Anyone who says it's so easy to write a country hit and that it's just a formula - well, try it sometime. If it was that easy, everybody would be doing it.

Chris Stapleton

DoingEasyCountryTryWriteWell

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

William Hazlitt

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