Beth Grant

Reality television, anybody can be a star at any minute.

— Beth Grant

I built a career on my archetype, and I'm grateful, but I'm trying to stretch.

— Beth Grant

As much as I love being an artist, I love being a mom even more.

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I grew up around people, so I know 'em, and I do like playin' 'em. I'm not religious, but I am kind…

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I love smoking. I miss it every day of my life. If I found out that it didn't cause cancer, I would…

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Sometimes I'll say, "When Sandy Bullock and I were doing Speed - the movie, not the drug." Just in case someone's listening.

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At Rain Man, I was 38. And before that, I had really just started working when I was 36. I was very…

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The Coens both give you direction, and then it's up to you to kind of figure out the music of what they're…

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There's always that key to every character that lets you go to those places you need to go to. No matter how…

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I never have compared myself to Jessica Tandy in any way, and that's such a great role model for me to look…

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I'm ready to do some classics. Maybe I wasn't in the beginning. I weighed 179 pounds when I got to New York,…

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Maybe the actors that used to turn down William Goldman's scripts - where he wanted them to stretch and grow, and he…

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Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise were both so generous to me on the Rain Man set. I remember Tom was in the…

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Maybe because All About Steve is about offbeat people, viewers don't want them to be heroes. There is something archetypal in us…

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I love Fargo, I love all of them, but Miller's Crossing just happens to be my favorite. When I heard Coen brothers…

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I was up at Big Sur with Christopher Reeve and Christine Lahti, doing this woman in a big fat-suit - Mrs. Bassett…

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My father died right after the movie Rain Man was released. He got to see it, then literally the day before he…

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I had a very hard time accepting myself as a character actress, because I wanted to be glamorous and a leading lady…

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All of a sudden I got a vision of Guernica - Pablo Picasso's painting, which is one of my all-time favorite paintings…

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I have such a great thing I want to do with Lady Macbeth - make her one of the witches - and…

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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…

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Patrick Swayze was in an acting class with me. We were working on Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf together, and there was…

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The brilliant costume designer Mary Zorphres had done all this research on West Texas in 1980. Every woman looked like that. At…

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My daughter loved All About Steve movie, because she's 6 feet tall and she's different. And I got a lot of great…

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If you just think Donnie Darkos a weird movie, you don't want to think. You don't want to feel your feelings. So…

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I've died so many times in so many movies. What is it about my face that people want to kill it? I'm…

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I've workshopped Medea where I have goddesses, and I'm naked onstage and painted gold, and talking in tongues, and the goddesses come…

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I like the line leading up to that: "I made your daughter the lead dancer, and you're not committed!" It's how people…

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Jessica Tandy. Nice company! And Ruth Gordon. They worked all along. She didn't really get any big star recognition until Driving Miss…

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I didn't understand Southland Tales script at all! Is there a single word to describe it? Cacophony? It's celebrity meets pornography meets…

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Tone is a very difficult thing. You can't write tone, I don't think. You can try - you certainly try. I write…

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I knew Steve Carell because of Little Miss Sunshine, so I felt very comfortable with him. Maybe he always does it to…

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Patrick Swayze had done The Outsiders already - he was certainly the star of our class - and for a big, sexy,…

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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…

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I love Donnie Darko movie so much. Just before I got that script, I had been to see some European art film.…

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I love to take chances. I love first-time directors. I love super-low-budget movies. I've done 80-something movies, and I want to just…

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I never have broken up in comedy, ever. There's something about me that I just don't break on camera - maybe because…

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The book by William Goldman, Adventures In The Screen Trade, great, awesome book. He talks about this very thing - that you…

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I love Maude Pearson character from Agel. I love that she walls her son up because he has a girlfriend! In fact,…

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I love Child's Play 2! That movie has a great theme: You better listen to children. That's why I wanted to do…

— Beth Grant