Its a very good feeling to be around a man who thinks women are juicy. Lee Grant More Quotes by Lee Grant More Quotes From Lee Grant Shared laughter creates a bond of friendship. Lee Grant bonds-of-friendshiplaughter 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. Lee Grant daughtermotherheart 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. Lee Grant starseyepast You dont need a love scene to show love. Lee Grant sceneshowsneeds 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 down-andstarsnames 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. Lee Grant directorsfatherson I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out. Lee Grant marriagewittyfunny I know what you go through when you learn someone close to you has died. Lee Grant diedknows This is our lives. The way to give it dignity is to tell the truth. Lee Grant dignitygivingway I don't think I fit the Marilyn Maxwell mode. Lee Grant maxwellfitthinking 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 african-americanjourneydirectors I was such a Jewish princess. My whole life was leading up to marrying a rich man and living on 48th Street. Lee Grant streetmanrichlife 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 bestyousurpriselife 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. Lee Grant jumpwalkingtimelife 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 roomplacebeinghistory I am proud of Kirk. I think he drums to his own drummer in every way. Lee Grant i-amthinkproudway 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 storycrushloveworld Kirk is a man, and he loves it. He loves women. Lee Grant loveshemanwomen 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 fightchildhoodracismnight 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. Lee Grant downdaycommunicationpeople
