David Alan Grier famous quotes

03-28-2025

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
Every little kid has always wanted to be a race car driver. This gets some of that out.
-- David Alan Grier

#Children #Kids #Race
Don't let anyone try to tell you who you are. Define yourself.
-- David Alan Grier

#Trying #Define Yourself #Who You Are
I started acting at the University of Michigan in my sophomore year,
-- David Alan Grier

#Years #Acting #Michigan
I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.
-- David Alan Grier

#Degrees #Done #Sitcom
Some days I think I look kind of cute, but other days I try to avoid the mirror.
-- David Alan Grier

#Cute #Thinking #Mirrors
Dancing With the Stars' is so Middle America, and people take it so seriously.
-- David Alan Grier

#Stars #America #Dancing
I think Chelsea Handler is the funniest woman.
-- David Alan Grier

#Thinking
I, myself, identify myself as a heathen.
-- David Alan Grier

#Heathen
My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.
-- David Alan Grier

#Father #Korea #Polio
My father was a doctor.
-- David Alan Grier

#Father #Doctors
I decided sitcoms weren't for me.
-- David Alan Grier

#Sitcom
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
Be talented enough to make it and stupid enough to keep trying.
-- David Alan Grier

#Stupid #Trying #Keep Trying
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
As I get older, my sense of humor is my biggest asset.
-- David Alan Grier

#Sense Of Humor #Assets
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
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
I've tried actively to define myself and redefine myself, and not be pigeonholed.
-- David Alan Grier
I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman.
-- David Alan Grier

#Men #Doctors #Black
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
I wanted something where I could have the clearest and most unfiltered artistic and creative voice.
-- David Alan Grier

#Voice #Creative #Artistic
The president is always made fun of.
-- David Alan Grier

#Fun #President #Made

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