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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. "
Lee Grant
Living
Up
Rich
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" People break down after a couple of hours. All the defenses go down, and there's a kind of communication that if I spent 20 years in a living room with one of these people, I would never, never know as much about them as I do in that one day. "
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" It's a very good feeling to be around a man who thinks women are juicy. "
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" I find that the stuff on television is more exciting than the films, which are for teens almost. "
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" I know what you go through when you learn someone close to you has died. "
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" I was such a New Yorker, I hardly knew what the Oscars were. "
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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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" Kirk is a man, and he loves it. He loves women. "
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Man
Women
" 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. "
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Father
Just
" 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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Finance
Yourself
You
" 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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Glory
Time
Talent
" I don't think I fit the Marilyn Maxwell mode. "
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Fit
Maxwell
Marilyn
" I am proud of Kirk. I think he drums to his own drummer in every way. "
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Proud
Way
I Am
" I was 22, and 40 was old. To be 40 again! "
Lee Grant
Old
Again
" This is our lives. The way to give it dignity is to tell the truth. "
Lee Grant
Tell
Dignity
Give
" I pretty much always stuck to the most interesting part I could play. "
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Always
Stuck
Pretty
" I've made a five-minute video on 'The Battering of Hillary Clinton.' "
Lee Grant
Video
Clinton
Hillary Clinton
" 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. "
Lee Grant
Ahead
Me
Life
" I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out. "
Lee Grant
Fascist
Take
Been
" I did my very first film with Kirk in Detective Story when he was the greatest, greatest star in the world. I fell in love with him, had a crush on him then. "
Lee Grant
Star
Story
Love
" You don't need a love scene to show love. "
Lee Grant
Need
Scene
Show
" Every actor in the room honored Sidney for being there so many years before. And everybody was so moved to be at a place where history was being made again. It was tangible. "
Lee Grant
History
Being There
Actor
" My instinct was that it was Sidney's childhood in the Bahamas that gave him the fearlessness to fight racism. So this documentary was a kind of rounding out of what had begun in that scene in In the Heat of the Night. "
Lee Grant
Heat
Childhood
Fight
" A lot of very, very big stars were going down and not being seen or heard from again. Kirk took a huge chance in putting a blacklisted writer's name on the screen and somehow or other, he survived it, like he survives everything. "
Lee Grant
Chance
Down
Stars
" 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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Best
Know
Life