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Collaboration is about listening to someone else and adding your own feelings about that thought.

~Joel Grey

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I love that moment just before the curtain goes up, whether I'm sitting in the audience or standing backstage. It's full of expectation. It's a thrill that's unequaled anywhere.

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It can take me forever to choose the right coffee cup in the morning. And it does make a difference!

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When my father came out on stage wearing a big cowboy hat and a shirt lettered 'Bar Mitzvah Ranch' to sing 'Home on the Range' in Yiddish, it was his way of saying, 'I want to be an American.'

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I don't like to bad-mouth other shows, but I was very disturbed after seeing 'Starlight Express.' It had very little to do with musical comedy as I know it. It had to do with sound and spectacle and records and technology and amplification.

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I was totally delighted, interested in, and amused by my stint on 'Voyager.'

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My dad would take me downtown, and I'd stand backstage and watch him in the vaudeville pit band. I was 6 or 7. He was a musician, a band leader, a wonderful clarinetist and saxophone player.

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I was traumatized by a lot of childhood stuff. I felt that I was bad somewhere, starting with my birth.

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There was always this idea that I would work on Shakespeare and some of the other classics, but it never came to be.

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Looking back now, I can see that my dad was a real fighter. A lot of people thought, 'Why don't you keep the Jewish stuff quiet?' They were anti-Semitic Jews. People who were afraid. People who came here and made it and anglicized themselves and didn't want to associate with their past.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: April 11th, 1932

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