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You dont need a love scene to show love.
Lee Grant / Film Actress
Needs
Scene
Shows
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You don't need a love scene to show love.
Lee Grant / Film Actress
Scene
Love Scene
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Usually, the worst films become cult films.
Lee Grant / Film Actress
Cult
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Shared laughter creates a bond of friendship.
Lee Grant / Film Actress
Bonds Of Friendship
Laughter
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I don't think I fit the Marilyn Maxwell mode.
Lee Grant / Film Actress
Fit
Maxwell
Thinking
Marilyn
Mode
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Kirk is a man, and he loves it. He loves women.
Lee Grant / Film Actress
Loves
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I was such a New Yorker, I hardly knew what the Oscars were.
Lee Grant / Film Actress
Oscars
Hardly
New Yorker
Yorker
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I started writing to reassure myself that I was still all here.
Lee Grant / Film Actress
Reassure
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This is our lives. The way to give it dignity is to tell the truth.
Lee Grant / Film Actress
Dignity
Giving
Our Lives
Way
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I've made a five-minute video on 'The Battering of Hillary Clinton.'
Lee Grant / Film Actress
Clinton
Video
Five-Minute
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
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I am proud of Kirk. I think he drums to his own drummer in every way.
Lee Grant / Film Actress
Drummer
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I pretty much always stuck to the most interesting part I could play.
Lee Grant / Film Actress
Stuck
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Its a very good feeling to be around a man who thinks women are juicy.
Lee Grant / Film Actress
Men
Feelings
Thinking
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It's a very good feeling to be around a man who thinks women are juicy.
Lee Grant / Film Actress
Good Feeling
Juicy
Good Women Man
Women Are
Thinks
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I know what you go through when you learn someone close to you has died.
Lee Grant / Film Actress
Died
Knows
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I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.
Lee Grant / Film Actress
Funny
Marriage
Garbage
Married
Marxist
Witty
Been
Out
Take
Fascist
Would
Neither
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I find that the stuff on television is more exciting than the films, which are for teens almost.
Lee Grant / Film Actress
Teens
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I was such a Jewish princess. My whole life was leading up to marrying a rich man and living on 48th Street.
Lee Grant / Film Actress
Marrying
Princess
Rich Man
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You can take your life into your own hands in terms of directing. There are ways for you to finance yourself and to write and make a film.
Lee Grant / Film Actress
Finance
Life Yourself Your
Directing
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First of all, the leads aren't the kind of acting work that I like. The parts that are meatier are not the ones that have to have a romance.
Lee Grant / Film Actress
Romance
First Of All
Leads
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From the time she was born, until she was fifteen, I didn't know where I left off and she began. We were joined at the hip or the heart or the brain.
Lee Grant / Film Actress
Daughter
Brain
Heart
Mother
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Since I'd developed this fear of not remembering my lines, I took 'Mulholland Drive' as a test for myself. It was a long monologue: no one else speaks.
Lee Grant / Film Actress
Lines
Since
Drive
Developed
Monologue
Remembering
Speaks
Test
Took
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I did my very first film with Kirk in Detective Story when he was the greatest, greatest star in the world. I fell in love with him, had a crush on him then.
Lee Grant / Film Actress
Crush
Detective
Detective Story
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Every actor in the room honored Sidney for being there so many years before. And everybody was so moved to be at a place where history was being made again. It was tangible.
Lee Grant / Film Actress
Being There
Honored
Moved
Tangible
Actor
Again
Room
So Many Years
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When I was on stage in the '50s, it was a glory time, a golden time with Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. There was real talent. And now, the theater is a little Disney-fied.
Lee Grant / Film Actress
Arthur
Glory
Golden
Tennessee
Miller
Williams
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If you are a star in Hollywood then you are always a star in your eyes, but not always in the eyes of new directors for whom your great performances are always fading into the past.
Lee Grant / Film Actress
Eye
Past
Stars
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When I became a director, I wanted to convince a very reluctant Sidney into allowing me to go on the journey of his life. Sidney had gone ahead of every other African American actor.
Lee Grant / Film Actress
Journey
African American
Allowing
Convince
Directors
Reluctant
African
Life Journey Me
Ahead
Director
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What goes on between a father and a son, which is usually such a private matter, is that they are able to be honest with each other, and be honest with me, as a director. Its just remarkable.
Lee Grant / Film Actress
Directors
Father
Son
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What goes on between a father and a son, which is usually such a private matter, is that they are able to be honest with each other, and be honest with me, as a director. It's just remarkable.
Lee Grant / Film Actress
Remarkable
Son
Father Me Son
To Be Honest
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My instinct was that it was Sidney's childhood in the Bahamas that gave him the fearlessness to fight racism. So this documentary was a kind of rounding out of what had begun in that scene in In the Heat of the Night.
Lee Grant / Film Actress
Bahamas
Childhood
Fearlessness
Heat
Instinct
Racism
Scene
Begun
Documentary
Rounding
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A lot of very, very big stars were going down and not being seen or heard from again. Kirk took a huge chance in putting a blacklisted writer's name on the screen and somehow or other, he survived it, like he survives everything.
Lee Grant / Film Actress
Down And
Names
Stars
Survived
Screen
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People break down after a couple of hours. All the defenses go down, and there's a kind of communication that if I spent 20 years in a living room with one of these people, I would never, never know as much about them as I do in that one day.
Lee Grant / Film Actress
Communication
Living Room
One Day
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Film and television were out. I was 24, and it went on until I was 36. For an actor, those are your years. I got a great urgency and education during the blacklist, and it made me grow up in a way I never could have before, and in very good ways, too.
Lee Grant / Film Actress
Film And Television
Urgency
Education Good Great
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I watch a lot of television. The stuff that they're putting on television, series like 'The Americans' and 'Game of Thrones,' it's so superior to most of the films that are coming out of Hollywood in terms of drama, certainly in terms of what we're interested in.
Lee Grant / Film Actress
Drama
Hollywood
Series
Game Of Thrones
Putting
Superior
Television Series
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After the Oscar for 'Shampoo,' I had a sense, even as I was walking up to get it, that this was the height of where I was going to go as an actress. And I felt that now was the time, if I wanted a longer life in the arts, that I had to jump from acting to directing.
Lee Grant / Film Actress
Height
Shampoo
Directing
Jump
Oscar
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The best actors just stay in the moment,and whatever happens in the scene is a genuine surprise. You really do not know what's going to happen next. But living that out in life is very dangerous because it throws you into a place where you don't know if you're going to survive.
Lee Grant / Film Actress
Genuine
Surprise
Throws
To Survive
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