Joel Grey Quotes
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My father was the one who used to stand up in the middle of a number to flutter his lips and make sputtering sounds into lyrics.
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I really did start a whole way of thinking about musical theater.
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There's a civility that has always been a part of me.
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Theater is the most important thing in life for me.
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I fell so hard for the theater. I knew it was a place where you can sort out your life.
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I loved being in the theater. It was a place of enormous excitement and happiness and safety and respect and dignity. It was a place where, if you did your job, you weren't a kid - you were a full person worthy of respect from all the adults in the company.
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When I was eight, I went to the theatre, and I remember looking at the stage afterward and pointing and saying, 'I want to do that.' I don't think that's ever changed.
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Being at the Play House, the only way I could see my life was that I would be an actor in a company, doing a lead role one week, a small part the next. That's what I thought I was going to be.
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There is nothing I enjoy more than doing my show.
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I never think about my age very much. I've always lived my life the same way, full of excitement and anticipation of wonderful things and the knowledge that some not-so-wonderful things come with it.
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My dad was a really funny, really talented guy who had a great success in a limited audience. But from him, I learned that he always felt the audience was entitled to 150 per cent. If he was performing at an event, he'd keep playing until the last person had finished dancing.
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You are either visual or you're not.
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I always wanted children, to be a dad. That was as important to me as being an actor.
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I've always wanted to do, oddly enough, a live variety show, but only with a live audience.
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A lot of people have problems thinking of you doing more than one thing. If you do one thing, then you couldn't possibly do another thing well. Of course, we know that's not so.
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That's what people forget about, is that when things are very, very powerful in a sad way, they have that possibility of also being over-the-top, hysterically funny.
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I was already in my early twenties, but I looked much younger because I was fresh-faced and, well, short. So I did songs such as 'Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah' and jokes such as describing current events as 'ancient history.' Boy, did the audience roar at that one.
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I love 'Cabaret' and 'George M!' They're both incredible as far as I'm concerned.
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I came to realize, along with being attracted to girls, I had similar feelings for boys.
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I'm very slow. I'm a slow learner.
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My grandparents from the old country, Latvia, were all musical on my father's side.
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I was so successful in Cleveland, and we moved to Los Angeles, and there was nothing for me to do. All of a sudden, from being a success, I was a has-been at 13.
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I don't like to bad-mouth other shows, but I was very disturbed after seeing 'Starlight Express.' It had very little to do with musical comedy as I know it. It had to do with sound and spectacle and records and technology and amplification.
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You can be taking two steps forward as an actor, but if a movie doesn't make money, you might as well be taking two steps backwards. It's all about economics.