David Alan Grier Quotes

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

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

- David Alan Grier

My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.

- David Alan Grier

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

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

- David Alan Grier

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

- David Alan Grier

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

- David Alan Grier

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

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

I want to see gay couples stuck with their significant other at Home Depot with that far away look in their eye, get me out of here.

- David Alan Grier

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

- David Alan Grier

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

- David Alan Grier

I think Chelsea Handler is the funniest woman.

- David Alan Grier

I couldn't wait to be, you know, a Black Panther. Of course they wouldn't let me join.

- David Alan Grier

I, myself, identify myself as a heathen.

- David Alan Grier

A friend of mine had his own theater 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

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

- David Alan Grier

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

- David Alan Grier

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

- David Alan Grier

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

- David Alan Grier

I decided sitcoms weren't for me.

- David Alan Grier

I grew up in a home and in a world in which you can do anything. We were all expected to go to college. My father was a doctor.

- David Alan Grier

My father was a doctor.

- David Alan Grier

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

- David Alan Grier

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

- David Alan Grier

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

- David Alan Grier