Lee Grant Quotes

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Lee Grant

Profession : Actress

Birth : October 31, 1925

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.

Lee Grant

I was 22, and 40 was old. To be 40 again!

Lee Grant

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.

Lee Grant

I watch a lot of television. The stuff that they're putting on television, series like 'The Americans' and 'Game of Thrones,' it's so superior to most of the films that are coming out of Hollywood in terms of drama, certainly in terms of what we're interested in.

Lee Grant

I find that the stuff on television is more exciting than the films, which are for teens almost.

Lee Grant

I was 24 when I was blacklisted. I was 36 when I got off the blacklist. How much of a life does an actress have in L.A. past 25? ... I was really scared of having producers know that I was on my way to 40.

Lee Grant

After the Oscar for 'Shampoo,' I had a sense, even as I was walking up to get it, that this was the height of where I was going to go as an actress. And I felt that now was the time, if I wanted a longer life in the arts, that I had to jump from acting to directing.

Lee Grant

Film and television were out. I was 24, and it went on until I was 36. For an actor, those are your years. I got a great urgency and education during the blacklist, and it made me grow up in a way I never could have before, and in very good ways, too.

Lee Grant

First of all, the leads aren't the kind of acting work that I like. The parts that are meatier are not the ones that have to have a romance.

Lee Grant

Usually, the worst films become cult films.

Lee Grant

I started writing to reassure myself that I was still all here.

Lee Grant