Joel Grey Quotes

I did a benefit one night at Carnegie Hall with Bono and Lady Gaga and Rufus Wainwright.

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• The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Life
  • Work
  • Economics

• I think we know how to do Mars.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Think
  • Know
  • Mars

• From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Family
  • Kids
  • House

• There's been a couple of guys who have gotten me. I used to say Adrian Gonzalez. He's a good lefty hitter; he's hit a few home runs off of me. They were a couple of mistakes, so if you make your pitches, you're more likely to have a better outcome.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Good
  • Home
  • Couple

• I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Home
  • Fun
  • Just

• What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.

  

  Nancy Carell
  • Family
  • Small
  • Breakfast

• I've only dressed in drag three or four times.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Times
  • Three
  • Dressed

• For people who think of chicken as the meat choice of those-who-don't-really-like-meat, brining a bird will be a revelation.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • Choice
  • Bird

• I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I'm older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Long
  • American
  • Fun

• Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• Courtney Love is really cool and funny. I would like to meet Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. I think I could play their daughters.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Funny
  • Play
  • Cool

• I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with a completely new perspective. I love the idea that people will sit in one room for a couple of hours and listen.

  

  Natasha Tsakos
  • People
  • Life
  • Idea

• Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Society
  • Understand
  • Tools

• I feel really connected to antiquity for some reason.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Reason
  • Feel
  • Connected

• They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happy
  • Career
  • Marriage

• My work is focused on using data to tell stories and explore our common humanity.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Work
  • Humanity
  • Explore

• Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Men
  • Power
  • Change

• You will regret many things in life but you will never regret being too kind or too fair.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Kind
  • Regret

• I don't care how much you love each other, if you have secrets, it'll never work. That's why she's your loved one, because it's the love of one. Togetherness, you are one.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Care
  • Loved
  • Secrets

• Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.

  

  Alice Hoffman
  • Men
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• The nature and the DNA of IMAX has been redefined in the past years to shoot these huge blockbusters. But I think that it's not the sole purpose of IMAX to capture cars exploding in your face.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Nature
  • Past
  • Purpose

• A broken immigration system means broken families and broken lives.

  

  Jose Antonio Vargas
  • Broken
  • Immigration

• I did a benefit one night at Carnegie Hall with Bono and Lady Gaga and Rufus Wainwright.

  

  Joel Grey
  • Night