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. - Lee Grant

For an actor, you sometimes have to say yes to these type of jobs. Especially when you get older, and are a woman.

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.

I had 12 years to make up for. I'm a very practical person. I had to support myself, I had to support my daughter, and I had to work. And if the way that I could work was to have the years taken off my age at that time, I was desperate to do it. I had to be able to go from one job to another and be pretty. And I achieved that for a good long time. I made up those 12 years.