Joel Grey

I'm crazy about surprises. I love chance.

— Joel Grey

I saw Lee J. Cobb in 'Death of a Salesman' when I was about 15, and I couldn't get up from my…

— Joel Grey

The fundamental job of the actor is to tell about the human condition, to be a voice for the truest ideas and…

— Joel Grey

My daughter, Jennifer Grey, was in 'Dirty Dancing,' which was shot in the Catskill Mountains, where the great old Jewish entertainers used…

— Joel Grey

I loved being in the theater. It was a place of enormous excitement and happiness and safety and respect and dignity. It…

— Joel Grey

I'm very slow. I'm a slow learner.

— Joel Grey

That's what people forget about, is that when things are very, very powerful in a sad way, they have that possibility of…

— Joel Grey

'Cabaret' was the most commercial success that I've been involved in.

— Joel Grey

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…

— Joel Grey

My dad would take me downtown, and I'd stand backstage and watch him in the vaudeville pit band. I was 6 or…

— Joel Grey

If you don't tell the whole truth about yourself, life is a ridiculous exercise.

— Joel Grey

Often, entertainment goes deeper, in terms of ideas, than the newspapers.

— Joel Grey

Larry Hagman and I are very old friends.

— Joel Grey

My father was a musician and wanted me to study piano. I had no interest.

— Joel Grey

You are either visual or you're not.

— Joel Grey

When you cast cross-racially, another dimension is added.

— Joel Grey

Being at the Play House, the only way I could see my life was that I would be an actor in a…

— Joel Grey

A lot of people have problems thinking of you doing more than one thing. If you do one thing, then you couldn't…

— Joel Grey

My mother loved fashion. She was a beauty and had enough sewing skills that she could re-create the looks in magazines. She…

— Joel Grey

I love that moment just before the curtain goes up, whether I'm sitting in the audience or standing backstage. It's full of…

— Joel Grey

It can take me forever to choose the right coffee cup in the morning. And it does make a difference!

— Joel Grey

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

I'm essentially an actor. And the fact that I got away with singing and dancing for a long time is still a…

— Joel Grey

I fell so hard for the theater. I knew it was a place where you can sort out your life.

— Joel Grey

My father was Mickey Katz, who worked with Spike Jones and then went on to improvise some successful Yiddish parodies, some of…

— Joel Grey