94 Quotes by Joel Grey

I'm enormously sympathetic to talented people who have few roles to choose from.

I was accepted to UCLA, but at the same time, I had a job offer at Chicago's Chez Paree nightclub. My father, being a practical man, felt I should take the job.

The fundamental job of the actor is to tell about the human condition, to be a voice for the truest ideas and deepest emotions.

I'm essentially an actor. And the fact that I got away with singing and dancing for a long time is still a miracle to me.

My mother loved fashion. She was a beauty and had enough sewing skills that she could re-create the looks in magazines. She also was enormously charismatic.

When I read a script, the important thing is that I can connect in some way with that character and have some idea from what his story is that I can tell that story too, because that's all acting is, is storytelling.

There is nothing I enjoy more than doing my show.

I really do enjoy everything I do. I just do so much.

Acting always affects every part of your life because it's such a solitary, lonely, and thrilling circumstance that you're taking on someone else's character and that responsibility. It's exhausting.