Joel Grey Quotes

My mother named me after her favorite actor, Joel McCrea, and dressed and presented me as her avatar. I'm sure she wanted to be a performer, but when that was impossible, I was her next best shot.

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• Tom Brokaw was never young.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Never
  • Young
  • Tom

• I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Baby
  • Brothers
  • Communicators

• I want to entertain people, but with some substance.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • People
  • Want
  • Substance

• What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Ended

• I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Me
  • Daily

• I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Great
  • Friends
  • Faith

• I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Age

• I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Myself
  • Hard
  • I Can

• In a way, Jersey really supports rock, maybe more than New York City and Long Island. I know plenty of bands that tour and do much better at Starland or other clubs in New Jersey than others in the tri-state area.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Long
  • City
  • Rock

• Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Time
  • Power
  • Clean

• Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Time
  • Character
  • Fall

• It is impossible to advance new theories... when you are under the influence of a particular view, or under the pressure of a particular dogma.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Influence
  • Impossible
  • View

• I often have the impression that the book I've just finished isn't satisfied: that it rejects me because I haven't successfully completed it. Because there is no going back, I'm forced to begin a new book so I can finally complete the previous one.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Book
  • Me
  • New

• I did notice growing up that there are so many things, obstacles and things, that people think you can't do because you're Muslim or because you're wearing a hijab. You hear a lot of no's. That was something that I wanted to see change.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• One should know their body types well to experiment with trends.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Know
  • Body
  • Trends

• The money factor had been kind of my excuse as to why I hadn't put out any music. So I just found the cheapest way to make music and get it to people, and that was via the Internet.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Music
  • Money

• On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Lived
  • Loser
  • Tombstone

• Very few people are fortunate enough to walk through countries like Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia, and I had seen them all. I had spoken to many on the street.

  

  Ashleigh Banfield
  • People

• Unusually for an Indian man of his generation, my father, being aware of my mother's intellectual abilities, encouraged her to go abroad by herself to obtain a Ph.D.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Man

• In an ideal world, nobody's work would be just about the money. People could pursue excellence in what they do, take pride in achievement, and derive meaning from knowing that their work improved the lives of others.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• I have a lot of traditional values I follow personally, which was hard to deal with when I first moved to L.A.

  

  Jacob Zachar

• I do think you need to understand a character's motivation and perspective.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Character
  • Perspective
  • motivation

• My mother named me after her favorite actor, Joel McCrea, and dressed and presented me as her avatar. I'm sure she wanted to be a performer, but when that was impossible, I was her next best shot.

  

  Joel Grey
  • She
  • Mother