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I built a career on my archetype, and I'm grateful, but I'm trying to stretch.

Beth Grant

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Beth Grant
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: September 18
Actor
Character Actress
Film Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Gadsden
Alabama
Built
Trying
Archetype
Stretch
Grateful
Career

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Tone is a very difficult thing. You can't write tone, I don't think. You can try - you certainly try. I write too, so I know I'm trying desperately to communicate to whoever's going to direct my pieces, the way I see the humor. But it's very difficult.
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I never have compared myself to Jessica Tandy in any way, and that's such a great role model for me to look at. I'm seriously going to put pictures of her in my dressing room and commune with her from now on, I think.
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I love Child's Play 2! That movie has a great theme: You better listen to children. That's why I wanted to do it. I was scared to do a horror movie - a blatant, studio horror movie - but I liked the script, and I thought that was such an important theme, because I don't think adults listen to children enough.
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I had this great teacher, Milton Katselas, who was this loud Greek who had directed Bette Davis and Liv Ullmann, and brought Edward Albee to this country. He said, Why do you keep trying to be a Rolex watch when you're the salt of the earth? Except he said it much louder.
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The Coens both give you direction, and then it's up to you to kind of figure out the music of what they're saying.
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Patrick Swayze was risk-taking - because he not only did a transvestite, but in Donnie Darko, he played a pedophile! Talk about a risky thing for a movie star, and he jumped right in. We even shot some of those video sequences of his character out on his ranch. I mean, he opened his heart and his ranch to us. He was just an awesome guy.
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I love Donnie Darko movie so much. Just before I got that script, I had been to see some European art film. I walked out of that movie and said to my husband, That's what I want to do! I want to do an art film and take it to the edge. Within two weeks, we were getting ready to go on vacation, and my agent called.
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Everything I've done hasn't worked out - you know, some things aren't as great as others - but I'm having so much fun, who cares? Isn't that what an artist is supposed to do? We're trying to change the world. Otherwise, why be an artist? You want to shake people up and make 'em think.
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Reality television, anybody can be a star at any minute.
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I've died so many times in so many movies. What is it about my face that people want to kill it? I'm sure they would've killed Kitty Farmer if they could've!
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To me, All About Steve movie is sweet-natured and sweet-hearted, and I can't get enough sweet-hearted movies. I want to be inspired right now. I think things are pretty tough in the world. And people at the première were loving it - I mean, loving it! So I'm so sorry to hear people saying that it is the worst movie of 2009. I don't buy it at all.
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There are several things iconic about Sissy Hickey character - even just sounds. Like, Awww. People love that sound! Awww. I actually didn't want to do the role, because I didn't think I looked like a smoker - even though I used to be a smoker.
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One friend said, Donnie Darko movie was weird! And I thought, Hmm. I don't think we're as good of friends as I thought. It's not like I disliked him for it it just meant we weren't on the same page I thought we were. Because I can't imagine watching that film and not being moved to tears.
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Maybe because All About Steve is about offbeat people, viewers don't want them to be heroes. There is something archetypal in us that we like a leading lady, we like a leading man, and we like people with my features to get killed. Maybe that's why the reviews were so severe - because good Lord, I've seen much worse films!
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If you just think Donnie Darkos a weird movie, you don't want to think. You don't want to feel your feelings. So yeah, I do want to shake 'em up.
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Jessica Tandy. Nice company! And Ruth Gordon. They worked all along. She didn't really get any big star recognition until Driving Miss Daisy. So what if it takes me that long? Slow and steady wins the race, right? Better a tortoise than a hare.
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Sometimes I'll say, When Sandy Bullock and I were doing Speed - the movie, not the drug. Just in case someone's listening.
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I thought Sissy Hickey should be really skinny and leathery and have one of those really husky voices, but Del Shores kept saying, I wrote this part for you. He took me to his house and showed me pictures of all his Texas relatives, and they looked exactly like my family.
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Patrick Swayze had done The Outsiders already - he was certainly the star of our class - and for a big, sexy, horseback-ridin' Texan to come over and tell me that I'm beautiful, and look me right in the eye and make me accept that there's a beauty in the characters I play meant so much to me.
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At Rain Man, I was 38. And before that, I had really just started working when I was 36. I was very late. So I've got time, right? As long as I stay healthy and eat right.
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