94 Quotes by Joel Grey

I'm about possibilities and about surprises and the life force.

There was always this idea that I would work on Shakespeare and some of the other classics, but it never came to be.

There's a lot going on in the world that's very disturbing: rewriting the Holocaust; pseudo-historians rewriting history itself. And we're dealing with a terrorist mentality that involves whole nations.

I don't look like Brad Pitt.

I thought 'The Humans' was a beautiful play.

I used to eat Danny Kaye's food. I had his Chinese and Italian meals, and that was as good as it gets.

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.

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.

I was small growing up, and to make matters worse, I wore glasses, and my mother dressed me in attention-getting outfits. I was a target of bullies.