David Alan Grier Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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.”
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“Every little kid has always wanted to be a race car driver. This gets some of that out.”
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“Don't let anyone try to tell you who you are. Define yourself.”
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“I started acting at the University of Michigan in my sophomore year,”
-- David Alan GrierSource : "David Alan Grier's 'Sporting Life' On Broadway". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. May 22, 2012.
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“I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.”
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“Some days I think I look kind of cute, but other days I try to avoid the mirror.”
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“Dancing With the Stars' is so Middle America, and people take it so seriously.”
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“I think Chelsea Handler is the funniest woman.”
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“I, myself, identify myself as a heathen.”
-- David Alan GrierSource : "Joy Behar Show", www.cnn.com. October 9, 2009.
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“My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.”
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“My father was a doctor.”
-- David Alan GrierSource : "David Alan Grier's 'Sporting Life' On Broadway". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 22, 2012.
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“I decided sitcoms weren't for me.”
-- David Alan GrierSource : "David Alan Grier Spoofs Media in 'Chocolate News'". www.foxnews.com. November 3, 2008.
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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.”
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“Be talented enough to make it and stupid enough to keep trying.”
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“To be known by the public, honestly. People come up and tell them how good I make them feel.”
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“As I get older, my sense of humor is my biggest asset.”
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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.”
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“I never wanted to lose out on an acting job and wonder if I hadn't been trained enough.”
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“I've tried actively to define myself and redefine myself, and not be pigeonholed.”
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“I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman.”
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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 GrierSource : "David Alan Grier's 'Sporting Life' On Broadway". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. May 22, 2012.
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“I wanted something where I could have the clearest and most unfiltered artistic and creative voice.”
-- David Alan Grier
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