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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Lee Grant Read Quote
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 Read Quote
