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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
drummer drums proud
I am proud of Kirk. I think he drums to his own drummer in every way.
Kirk is a man, and he loves it. He loves women.
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.
laughter bonds-of-friendship
Shared laughter creates a bond of friendship.
giving way dignity
This is our lives. The way to give it dignity is to tell the truth.
died knows
I know what you go through when you learn someone close to you has died.
stars names down-and
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.
journey african-american actors
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.
father son goes-on
What goes on between a father and a son, which is usually such a private matter, is that they are able to be honest with each other, and be honest with me, as a director. Its just remarkable.