Best quotes by Lee Grant on Life

Checkout quotes by Lee Grant on Life

  • You can take your life into your own hands in terms of directing. There are ways for you to finance yourself and to write and make a film.
    - Lee Grant
  • I was such a Jewish princess. My whole life was leading up to marrying a rich man and living on 48th Street.
    - Lee Grant
  • The best actors just stay in the moment,and whatever happens in the scene is a genuine surprise. You really do not know what's going to happen next. But living that out in life is very dangerous because it throws you into a place where you don't know if you're going to survive.
    - Lee Grant
  • After the Oscar for 'Shampoo,' I had a sense, even as I was walking up to get it, that this was the height of where I was going to go as an actress. And I felt that now was the time, if I wanted a longer life in the arts, that I had to jump from acting to directing.
    - Lee Grant
  • When I became a director, I wanted to convince a very reluctant Sidney into allowing me to go on the journey of his life. Sidney had gone ahead of every other African American actor.
    - Lee Grant
  • I was 24 when I was blacklisted. I was 36 when I got off the blacklist. How much of a life does an actress have in L.A. past 25? ... I was really scared of having producers know that I was on my way to 40.
    - Lee Grant