David Alan Grier Quotes

• Don't let anyone try to tell you who you are. Define yourself.

  David Alan Grier

  Trying, Define Yourself, Who You Are

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• Every little kid has always wanted to be a race car driver. This gets some of that out.

  David Alan Grier

  Children, Kids, Race

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• I try to make my bed every day for mental health. Coming home to an unmade bed or a room with clothes all over will depress me.

  David Alan Grier

  Depressing, Home, Clothes

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• Be talented enough to make it and stupid enough to keep trying.

  David Alan Grier

  Stupid, Trying, Keep Trying

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• Some days I think I look kind of cute, but other days I try to avoid the mirror.

  David Alan Grier

  Cute, Thinking, Mirrors

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• I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.

  David Alan Grier

  Degrees, Done, Sitcom

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• Sarah Palin is to women what John Wayne Gacy was to birthday clowns.

  David Alan Grier

  Clown, Wayne, Palin

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• I think Chelsea Handler is the funniest woman.

  David Alan Grier

  Thinking, Chelsea

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• My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call 'Little House on the Prairie' tales, but they were tales of segregated and racist America growing up in Alabama and Mississippi, where she came from.

  David Alan Grier

  Growing Up, Grandmother, America

  "David Alan Grier's 'Sporting Life' On Broadway". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. May 22, 2012.

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• I’ve tried actively to define myself and redefine myself, and not be pigeonholed.

  David Alan Grier

  "David Alan Grier Interview: Tony-Nominated ‘Porgy And Bess’ Star On Broadway vs Hollywood". Interview with Mallika Rao, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 8, 2012.

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• A friend of mine had his own theatre company, and he jumped me in like I was in a gang. And once I came in, it was just that simple. For the first time in my life, I felt, 'This is a career, this is a life that I think I can grow old doing.' It was love at first sight. I loved being on stage and reading these plays. It was great.

  David Alan Grier

  Reading, Thinking, Simple

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• My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.

  David Alan Grier

  Father, Korea, Polio

  "David Alan Grier's 'Sporting Life' On Broadway". Interview with Terry Gross, www.wwno.org. May 22, 2012.

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• I, myself, identify myself as a heathen.

  David Alan Grier

  Heathen

  "Joy Behar Show", www.cnn.com. October 9, 2009.

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• To be known by the public, honestly. People come up and tell them how good I make them feel.

  David Alan Grier

  People, Honest, Come Up

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• As I get older, my sense of humor is my biggest asset.

  David Alan Grier

  Sense Of Humor, Assets

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• America is grappling with cultural diversity, and I just want to put a show on that represents the world in which I live.

  David Alan Grier

  America, Diversity, World

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• I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman.

  David Alan Grier

  Men, Doctors, Black

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• I wanted something where I could have the clearest and most unfiltered artistic and creative voice.

  David Alan Grier

  Voice, Creative, Artistic

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• When I was a kid, I wanted to walk with my dad's limp - my dad was my hero - but that infuriated him, and he would make me walk back and forth in the living room until I walked without it.

  David Alan Grier

  Dad, Hero, Kids

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• I decided sitcoms weren't for me.

  David Alan Grier

  Sitcom, Decided

  "David Alan Grier Spoofs Media in 'Chocolate News'". www.foxnews.com. November 3, 2008.

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• I never wanted to lose out on an acting job and wonder if I hadn't been trained enough.

  David Alan Grier

  Jobs, Acting, Wonder

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• I started acting at the University of Michigan in my sophomore year.

  David Alan Grier

  Years, Acting, Michigan

  "David Alan Grier's 'Sporting Life' On Broadway". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. May 22, 2012.

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• Dancing With the Stars' is so Middle America, and people take it so seriously.

  David Alan Grier

  Stars, America, People

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• My father was a doctor.

  David Alan Grier

  Father, Doctors

  "David Alan Grier's 'Sporting Life' On Broadway". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 22, 2012.

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• The president is always made fun of.

  David Alan Grier

  Fun, President, Made

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