If you don't tell the whole truth about yourself, life is a ridiculous exercise. — Joel Grey Copy Share Image
Being at the Play House, the only way I could see my life was that I would be an actor in a… — Joel Grey Copy Share Image
I never think about my age very much. I've always lived my life the same way, full of excitement and anticipation of… — Joel Grey Copy Share Image
I fell so hard for the theater. I knew it was a place where you can sort out your life. — Joel Grey Copy Share Image
When I met Jo Wilder, I fell crazy in love and never thought about homosexuality. And I thought, 'Well, this is what… — Joel Grey Copy Share Image
I think there is a lot of loss in being a professional child actor. All of a sudden, you start to want… — Joel Grey Copy Share Image
Acting always affects every part of your life because it's such a solitary, lonely, and thrilling circumstance that you're taking on someone… — Joel Grey Copy Share Image
Eight times a week, I got to be a gay man, a remarkable gay man, and every night, that felt as full,… — 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