A lot of people have problems thinking of you doing more than one thing. If you do one thing, then you couldn’t possibly do another thing well. Of course, we know that’s not so. Joel Grey Read Quote
There was always this idea that I would work on Shakespeare and some of the other classics, but it never came to be. Joel Grey Read Quote
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. Joel Grey Read Quote
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. Joel Grey Read Quote
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. Joel Grey Read Quote
I saw Lee J. Cobb in ‘Death of a Salesman’ when I was about 15, and I couldn’t get up from my seat in the theater; I was so… I was weeping, and I was upset. And I find that people are still like that in a similar circumstance in a theater today, where they just can’t get up. It’s too heartbreaking. Joel Grey Read Quote
That’s what people forget about, is that when things are very, very powerful in a sad way, they have that possibility of also being over-the-top, hysterically funny. Joel Grey Read Quote
