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Lee Grant (born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal; October 31, during the mid-1920s) is an American actress, documentarian, and director. She made her film debut in 1951 as a young shoplifter in William Wyler's Detective Story, co-starring Kirk Douglas and Eleanor Parker.
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I’m in my 90s and it’s lovely to have any of my films appreciated.
For an actor, you sometimes have to say yes to these type of jobs. Especially when you get older, and are a woman.
I think the most important impetus in life, is that it not be boring. The fear of boredom drove me more than any yearning for something I wanted to achieve.
It was like, one day you were an actress who could do anything, and the very next day, you could not work in film or television again. And that was the temper of the times.
The work she did in the film was very sensitive. There was something in her character that struck a chord with her. I found her fascinating.
I was a bird imitating the birds. And so it was their kind of imaginary world that I was raised in, and it was part delicious and part confusing.
I don’t use a typewriter or a computer, so everything was written by pen and ink by my little desk. It took me four years to complete it, and as you can see, it wasn’t an easy book to write.
Learn how to be a waiter.
I knew my career as an actor would change. I wouldn’t get these parts again. I had reached the age where Hollywood begins to humiliate beautiful women. I wasn’t going to do it. Walking up there, I could almost feel myself accepting that change.
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