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I never learned to speak Yiddish, ever.
— Joel Grey
Tags: ever, learned, speak, never

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My father was Mickey Katz, who worked with Spike Jones and then went on to improvise some successful Yiddish parodies, some of which I perform. My favorite was 'Geshray of the Vilde Kotchke,' his version of 'Cry of the Wild Goose.'
— Joel Grey
Tags: who, wild, cry, father
The Yiddish language is so rich and unusual that I've always been hooked on its sounds, although I don't speak it.
— Joel Grey
Tags: always, speak, rich, language
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.
— Joel Grey
Tags: stand, leader, dad, me
I was traumatized by a lot of childhood stuff. I felt that I was bad somewhere, starting with my birth.
— Joel Grey
Tags: somewhere, birth, bad, childhood
I think there is a lot of loss in being a professional child actor. All of a sudden, you start to want to be an adult at the age of 8 or 9. I never did kid stuff, so to speak, so I was in many ways ostracized by the other kids. But I did get this other life, so it was a trade-off.
— Joel Grey
Tags: think, age, you, life
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