Lee Grant Quotations

If you are a star in Hollywood then you are always a star in your eyes, but not always in the eyes of new directors for whom your great performances are always fading into the past.

From the time she was born, until she was fifteen, I didn't know where I left off and she began. We were joined at the hip or the heart or the brain.

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

Its a very good feeling to be around a man who thinks women are juicy.

You dont need a love scene to show love.

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.

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.

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.

Nobody wants to see anyone who has been there all their lives disintegrate. Dick has been always there and always young, and if he has a stroke, that means I'm vulnerable, too. Unfortunately, we all are.

We probably have backup supplies from 1992. For peace and harmony I have to do these things.