Joel Grey Quotes

My Mother is an actress, so it's always been a part of my life.

I was into acting as a kid. There was a time when I was 18 that I played the boy in a production of 'Equus' in Oregon, and I thought that was going to be my life.

I started acting young, and I was a dramatic actress.

I had done plays all my life. Many, many, many plays, off-Broadway plays.

In my first year at drama school, I did this kids' show called 'Let's See.'

My English teacher always gave me scripts for plays, but I was into sports. My friend said there were small parts I could go up for, but the director gave me the part of Mozart, which was kind of the lead role. From then on I just loved it.

Actor's life is very long.

I majored in theater in college. I did a couple of plays in high school, and I really enjoyed it, so I went to Illinois Wesleyan University and got a degree, and then I went back to Chicago and started doing theater in all the companies around the city for about 11 years before I moved out to L.A.

As an actor, you spend a lot of your life in hotel rooms.

I like actors - I used to be one.

I have never acted in one and I'm not at all interested to do so either.

Acting has always been my passion.

I did a play I think my first six months on the show, called Bullpen. Then I got involved with Theater Forty and did this play called Plastic which is about two male models coming to a casting call.

It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.

I'd love to do a drama.

I love to act, and I try to be challenged by what I do.

I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare. A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory.

My career is as an actress. I am an actress playing a comedienne.

I would love to have the opportunity to do a play.

Any day acting is an amazing day.

My first major role was in a play called 'Through the Leaves.'

I started acting when I was 9.

Drama is where I always thought I would go.

I started in theatre when I was 13 or 14 years old and did a lot of theatre until my early thirties. Off-Broadway stuff - off-off-off-off-Broadway stuff - and I do love it.

I love to act.