94 Quotes by Joel Grey

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.

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.

Larry Hagman and I are very old friends.

I really did start a whole way of thinking about musical theater.

I always sort of saw myself as different from a musician.

My grandparents from the old country, Latvia, were all musical on my father's side.

All the things you do, even the shows that don't work, are as much work, but you learn more from the things that are difficult.

My dad would take me downtown, and I'd stand backstage and watch him in the vaudeville pit band. I was 6 or 7. He was a musician, a band leader, a wonderful clarinetist and saxophone player.

'Cabaret' was the most commercial success that I've been involved in.