I built a career on my archetype, and I'm grateful, but I'm trying to stretch. — Beth Grant Archetype Copy Share Image
At Rain Man, I was 38. And before that, I had really just started working when I was 36. I was very… — Beth Grant Copy Share Image
The Coens both give you direction, and then it's up to you to kind of figure out the music of what they're… — Beth Grant Direction Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll say, "When Sandy Bullock and I were doing Speed - the movie, not the drug." Just in case someone's listening. — Beth Grant Drug Copy Share Image
I love smoking. I miss it every day of my life. If I found out that it didn't cause cancer, I would… — Beth Grant Cancer Copy Share Image
I grew up around people, so I know 'em, and I do like playin' 'em. I'm not religious, but I am kind… — Beth Grant Copy Share Image
I've died so many times in so many movies. What is it about my face that people want to kill it? I'm… — Beth Grant Farmers Copy Share Image
If you just think Donnie Darkos a weird movie, you don't want to think. You don't want to feel your feelings. So… — Beth Grant Feelings Copy Share Image
I'm ready to do some classics. Maybe I wasn't in the beginning. I weighed 179 pounds when I got to New York,… — Beth Grant Copy Share Image
Jessica Tandy. Nice company! And Ruth Gordon. They worked all along. She didn't really get any big star recognition until Driving Miss… — Beth Grant Business Copy Share Image
I like the line leading up to that: "I made your daughter the lead dancer, and you're not committed!" It's how people… — Beth Grant Children Copy Share Image
I've workshopped Medea where I have goddesses, and I'm naked onstage and painted gold, and talking in tongues, and the goddesses come… — Beth Grant Cheating Copy Share Image
All of a sudden I got a vision of Guernica - Pablo Picasso's painting, which is one of my all-time favorite paintings… — Beth Grant Artist Copy Share Image
I had a very hard time accepting myself as a character actress, because I wanted to be glamorous and a leading lady… — Beth Grant Copy Share Image
Patrick Swayze had done The Outsiders already - he was certainly the star of our class - and for a big, sexy,… — Beth Grant Copy Share Image
To me, All About Steve movie is sweet-natured and sweet-hearted, and I can't get enough sweet-hearted movies. I want to be inspired… — Beth Grant Copy Share Image
I knew Steve Carell because of Little Miss Sunshine, so I felt very comfortable with him. Maybe he always does it to… — Beth Grant Boundaries Copy Share Image
The brilliant costume designer Mary Zorphres had done all this research on West Texas in 1980. Every woman looked like that. At… — Beth Grant Age Copy Share Image
I have such a great thing I want to do with Lady Macbeth - make her one of the witches - and… — Beth Grant Copy Share Image
Patrick Swayze was in an acting class with me. We were working on Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf together, and there was… — Beth Grant Acting Copy Share Image
It's Richard Kelly's brilliance, because he led me to Donnie Darko performance. He wanted sincerity, he didn't want it to be one… — Beth Grant Brilliance Copy Share Image
My daughter loved All About Steve movie, because she's 6 feet tall and she's different. And I got a lot of great… — Beth Grant Copy Share Image
I never have compared myself to Jessica Tandy in any way, and that's such a great role model for me to look… — Beth Grant Dressing room Copy Share Image
There's always that key to every character that lets you go to those places you need to go to. No matter how… — Beth Grant Character Copy Share Image
Tone is a very difficult thing. You can't write tone, I don't think. You can try - you certainly try. I write… — Beth Grant Copy Share Image
I didn't understand Southland Tales script at all! Is there a single word to describe it? Cacophony? It's celebrity meets pornography meets… — Beth Grant Communism Copy Share Image
I love Fargo, I love all of them, but Miller's Crossing just happens to be my favorite. When I heard Coen brothers… — Beth Grant Brother Copy Share Image
Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise were both so generous to me on the Rain Man set. I remember Tom was in the… — Beth Grant Cruise Copy Share Image
Maybe because All About Steve is about offbeat people, viewers don't want them to be heroes. There is something archetypal in us… — Beth Grant Film Copy Share Image
Maybe the actors that used to turn down William Goldman's scripts - where he wanted them to stretch and grow, and he… — Beth Grant Actor Copy Share Image
I was up at Big Sur with Christopher Reeve and Christine Lahti, doing this woman in a big fat-suit - Mrs. Bassett… — Beth Grant Beautiful Copy Share Image
My father died right after the movie Rain Man was released. He got to see it, then literally the day before he… — Beth Grant Cruise Copy Share Image
Milton Katselas said, "Who are you to look down your nose at Anna Magnani and Maureen Stapleton? Who do you think you… — Beth Grant Copy Share Image
My husband and I can't get through dinner without being defensive. We've been married 24 years, and I love my husband to… — Beth Grant Death Copy Share Image
I was so frustrated with my whole life that I walked up this hilltop and screamed at the heavens. It was very… — Beth Grant Angry Copy Share Image
I had this great teacher, Milton Katselas, who was this loud Greek who had directed Bette Davis and Liv Ullmann, and brought… — Beth Grant Country Copy Share Image
There are several things iconic about Sissy Hickey character - even just sounds. Like, "Awww." People love that sound! "Awww." I actually… — Beth Grant Character Copy Share Image
I thought Sissy Hickey should be really skinny and leathery and have one of those really husky voices, but Del Shores kept… — Beth Grant Copy Share Image
