David Alan Grier Quotes

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

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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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• 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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• 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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• 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.

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

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

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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 think Chelsea Handler is the funniest woman.

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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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• 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.

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

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

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

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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.

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David Alan Grier (27)

Birth:	30th June, 1956
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Comedian

About

David Alan Grier was born in Detroit, Michigan. He is an American actor and comedian. He is known for his work on the sketch comedy television show In Living Color. He received a B.A. from the University of Michigan, and an M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama in 1981. He was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical and won the Theatre World Award for The First. He won the Golden Lion for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival for the film. He made his film debut in 1983 in Streamers, directed by Robert Altman. He starred in his own Comedy Central stand-up special The Book of David: The Cult Figure's Manifesto. He is also a frequent guest on the Comedy Central show Crank Yankers.

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