Lee Grant

“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.”

“This is our lives. The way to give it dignity is to tell the truth.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.”

“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.”

“I've made a five-minute video on 'The Battering of Hillary Clinton.'”

“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.”

“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.”

“You don't need a love scene to show love.”

“It's a very good feeling to be around a man who thinks women are juicy.”