Quotes from Lee Grant

Around eighteen, Dinah suddenly became interested in acting. I worked with her on This Property Is Condemned, a Tennessee Williams one-act, for her audition for the Actors Studio. Then came Marty Maraschino in Grease, then a running part in Soap, a hot TV series. Then the lead in Neil Simon's play I Ought to Be in Pictures. She was accepted by the Studio and quickly hired by Robert Redford as the girl in Ordinary People who commits suicide.

Things happen in your life that leave an imprint. Injustice left the deepest imprint on mine.

Somehow he promised each of us a great romance, without a touch or a word. He was an accomplished tease.

I've reinvented myself many times over, picked up my broken wings and flapped till I could hop around again. I'm flying again now, in my bedroom, writing, looking out my window. I had no idea, until I began putting pen to paper, that so many memories were inside me waiting to be rediscovered. I'm very lucky. I may even come to know myself.

I did a documentary on Farrah for Lifetime. Actually, a do-over documentary, because Farrah didn't like the way she looked in the first one. And she was right.

He brought over a gold box and opened it. Inside were chocolates wrapped in foil. Billy sat down close to me. "Life," he said, "is like a box of bonbons. Some dark with chocolate filling; some with cherries. But you never know till you open the silver wrapper what life holds for you." He held my hand and squeezed it. I squeezed back.

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.

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.

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.

I was such a Jewish princess. My whole life was leading up to marrying a rich man and living on 48th Street.

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.

I pretty much always stuck to the most interesting part I could play.

I've made a five-minute video on 'The Battering of Hillary Clinton.'

I am proud of Kirk. I think he drums to his own drummer in every way.

Kirk is a man, and he loves it. He loves 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. Its just remarkable.

Shared laughter creates a bond of friendship.

I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.