Lee Grant
Lee Grant
Lee Grant is an American stage, film and television actress and film director. From 1952-64 she was blacklisted from radio, film, and most television work, but continued working sporadically in the theatre during this time...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth31 October 1926
CountryUnited States of America
everybody history honored moved
Every actor in the room honored Sidney for being there so many years before. And everybody was so moved to be at a place where history was being made again. It was tangible.
break communication couple deep living people room spent
You get down so deep in those kind of hours, and people break down after a couple of hours. All the defenses go down, and there's a kind of communication that if I spent 20 years in a living room with one of these people, I would never, never know as much about them as I do in that one day.
anyone lives means nobody wants
Nobody wants to see anyone who has been there all their lives disintegrate. Dick has been always there and always young, and if he has a stroke, that means I'm vulnerable, too. Unfortunately, we all are.
Kirk is a man, and he loves it. He loves women.
drummer drums proud
I am proud of Kirk. I think he drums to his own drummer in every way.
detective fell kirk love star
I did my very first film with Kirk in Detective Story when he was the greatest, greatest star in the world. I fell in love with him, had a crush on him then.
bahamas begun gave heat instinct scene
My instinct was that it was Sidney's childhood in the Bahamas that gave him the fearlessness to fight racism. So this documentary was a kind of rounding out of what had begun in that scene in In the Heat of the Night.
communication people room spent
People break down after a couple of hours. All the defenses go down, and there's a kind of communication that if I spent 20 years in a living room with one of these people, I would never, never know as much about them as I do in that one day.
backup harmony peace supplies
We probably have backup supplies from 1992. For peace and harmony I have to do these things.
both longing
I think there was a longing in both of them to do a film together,
stars eye past
If you are a star in Hollywood then you are always a star in your eyes, but not always in the eyes of new directors for whom your great performances are always fading into the past.
mother daughter heart
From the time she was born, until she was fifteen, I didn't know where I left off and she began. We were joined at the hip or the heart or the brain.
memorable garbage married
I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.
men thinking feelings
Its a very good feeling to be around a man who thinks women are juicy.