Lee Grant Quotes & Sayings

“It's a very good feeling to be around a man who thinks women are juicy.”

“This is our lives. The way to give it dignity is to tell the truth.”

“I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.”

“A lot of very, very big stars were going down and not being seen or heard from again. Kirk took a huge chance in putting a blacklisted writer's name on the screen and somehow or other, he survived it, like he survives everything.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I am proud of Kirk. I think he drums to his own drummer in every way.”

“I don't think I fit the Marilyn Maxwell mode.”

“I know what you go through when you learn someone close to you has died.”