David Alan Grier Quotes

#1. The mind couldn't think about the End of the World all the time. It needed the occasional break, a romp through the trivial. Because it was through trivia that the mind was anchored in reality [ ... ]

Neal Stephenson

#2. Because of Christ alone, embraced through faith alone, for the glory of God and the good of our neighbors alone, on the basis of God's Word alone - and nothing more. This is the slogan of the ordinary Christian (Luke 10:27).

Michael S. Horton

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

David Alan Grier

#4. 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

#5. My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.

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#6. My father was a doctor.

David Alan Grier

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

David Alan Grier

#8. The president is always made fun of.

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#9. FDR, JFK, LBJ [all Democratic presidents ] we have a pretty long list of presidents who maybe were not entirely forthcoming with intelligence information before they went to war, so I'd be cautious against making legal cases against the administration.

Barack Obama

#10. War is the mass murder of workers. When workers refuse to obey the calls of their governments, there will be no more war.

Keir Hardie

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

David Alan Grier

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

David Alan Grier

#13. She'd eat you alive." "She would, would she?" Niko said dryly. "Seriously, Nik, she's dangerous, a predator." This voice-of-reason shit, it had to stop. It was a strain on my resources. His lip twitched. "And what, little brother, do you think I am?" Damn. He had me there.

Rob Thurman

#14. I decided sitcoms weren't for me.

David Alan Grier

#15. I, myself, identify myself as a heathen.

David Alan Grier

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

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

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

David Alan Grier

#19. 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

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

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#21. 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

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

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

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#24. I have a talent for missing the best and greatest parties.

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#25. I think Chelsea Handler is the funniest woman.

David Alan Grier

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

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

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

David Alan Grier

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

David Alan Grier

#31. 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

#32. 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