After my bar mitzvah, I started to assimilate, to really not pay attention to my roots. The anti-Semitic experiences of my youth had been very painful. You try to put all that in the past and become a person of… — Joel Grey Copy Share Image
When my father came out on stage wearing a big cowboy hat and a shirt lettered 'Bar Mitzvah Ranch' to sing 'Home on the Range' in Yiddish, it was his way of saying, 'I want to be an American.' — Joel Grey Copy Share Image
I saw Lee J. Cobb in 'Death of a Salesman' when I was about 15, and I couldn't get up from my seat in… — Joel Grey Copy Share Image
The fundamental job of the actor is to tell about the human condition, to be a voice for the truest ideas and deepest emotions. — Joel Grey Copy Share Image
My daughter, Jennifer Grey, was in 'Dirty Dancing,' which was shot in the Catskill Mountains, where the great old Jewish entertainers used to appear.… — Joel Grey Copy Share Image
I loved being in the theater. It was a place of enormous excitement and happiness and safety and respect and dignity. It was a… — Joel Grey Copy Share Image
That's what people forget about, is that when things are very, very powerful in a sad way, they have that possibility of also being… — Joel Grey Copy Share Image
I don't want to do material that I don't like. I've always stuck to that policy. If that means being out of work for… — Joel Grey Copy Share Image
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… — Joel Grey Copy Share Image
If you don't tell the whole truth about yourself, life is a ridiculous exercise. — Joel Grey Copy Share Image
Often, entertainment goes deeper, in terms of ideas, than the newspapers. — Joel Grey Copy Share Image
