David Alan Grier quote: "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."

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

America is grappling with cultural diversity, and I just want to put a show on that represents the w...
DAVID ALAN GRIER

I try to make my bed every day for mental health. Coming home to an unmade bed or a room with clothe...
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...
DAVID ALAN GRIER

I want to see gay couples stuck with their significant other at Home Depot with that far away look i...
DAVID ALAN GRIER

My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.
DAVID ALAN GRIER

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

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

My father was a doctor.
DAVID ALAN GRIER

The president is always made fun of.
DAVID ALAN GRIER

I decided sitcoms weren't for me.
DAVID ALAN GRIER

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

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

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

My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call 'Little House on the ...
DAVID ALAN GRIER

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

I, myself, identify myself as a heathen.
DAVID ALAN GRIER

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

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

Be talented enough to make it and stupid enough to keep trying.
DAVID ALAN GRIER

That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black ...
PAM GRIER

I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Ca...
PAM GRIER

I like to do all kinds of films.
PAM GRIER

I love science fiction.
PAM GRIER

My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.
PAM GRIER

This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
PAM GRIER

But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.
PAM GRIER

It's always fun to put on bell bottoms and have your butt hanging out and hip huggers.
PAM GRIER

It makes me forget that I'm not going to be a major star and lead female in films whether it was...
PAM GRIER

I'm an Air force Brat and I've lived all over the world and this country and there were peop...
PAM GRIER

Today, many people are engaging in same sex relationships and saying they are not gay.
PAM GRIER

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.
PAM GRIER

Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark ...
PAM GRIER

I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.
PAM GRIER

Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is suppose...
PAM GRIER

Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you, they...
PAM GRIER

And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see wh...
PAM GRIER

Each time you do a film you gain a lot of experience and build a visual resume where people get to k...
PAM GRIER

Well, thank you and that's for them, but for me, I want to look back at a body of work where whe...
PAM GRIER

You can be on top of everything, and the next minute, you're going to be on the bottom.
PAM GRIER

I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
PAM GRIER

Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing mor...
PAM GRIER

I am really blessed and very grateful for it.
PAM GRIER

I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on ph...
PAM GRIER

There are just certain realities about our world and I just happen to be creative within it.
PAM GRIER

Many of my early Vines and collaborations were with gay people.
NASH GRIER

I'm not 'Will's brother' anymore. Will is my brother. I'm paving the way for all...
NASH GRIER

Towards the end of summer 2013, when school ended, I decided to re-download all of my social media c...
NASH GRIER

Designing a collection with Aeropostale was completely surreal.
NASH GRIER

I like being the center of attention. I want to be in the limelight, basically.
NASH GRIER

Don't limit your audience.
NASH GRIER

When people say 'that's risky,' or when the odds are not in my favor, I'm more motiv...
NASH GRIER

I love entertaining people, and I want to pursue it.
NASH GRIER

Be happy. Don't make a Vine about, like, something not that happy.
NASH GRIER

You can play professional lacrosse, but they make less than a teacher's salary now. I always tho...
NASH GRIER

As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the...
NASH GRIER

I'm of the mind that even people who have limitations, if they have a curiosity, they will find a wa...
TISH GRIER

I accept you, and you get the same respect from me whether you are black, white, gay straight, Asian...
NASH GRIER

Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.
PAM GRIER

He's great when he gets into the paint. He's really good at finding guys.
BILL GRIER

Mr. Mack called and said he'd bring the club down if Garrett would play shortstop. Garrett came, pla...
BILL GRIER

They'd catch the afternoon train to Milford. My grandmother would put them up Wednesday night, and t...
BILL GRIER

My grandfather was very involved with baseball. He just used dad to do the go-for business and gave ...
BILL GRIER

Yeah, I'd listen. But I haven't called them, and they haven't called me.
BILL GRIER

I remember when Satchel Paige came. Old Satchel pulled up in his Cadillac convertible.
BILL GRIER

My grandfather got on the train in Milford to go to Philly and see Mr. Mack. He just walked into his...
BILL GRIER

There is no joy in a life that is all information. There is no 'juice' to that kind of life. No swee...
TISH GRIER

Anger is brittle fire that consumes and breaks whatever it engulfs.
TISH GRIER

Where is the path to Grown-Up Land? How do I get there? Or will I just get old, not understanding th...
TISH GRIER

Maybe it's easier to like someone else's life, and live vicariously through it, than take some respo...
TISH GRIER

It's always been about the experience of life and of not being passive. If something so excites my c...
TISH GRIER

The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.
PAM GRIER

You can be on top of everything, and the next minute, you're going to be on the bottom.
PAM GRIER

That's what I crave that diversity.
PAM GRIER

You get to do your work as an actor.
PAM GRIER

That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my s...
PAM GRIER

My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions.
PAM GRIER

And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's aro...
PAM GRIER

I'm not very good at hockey. I never played before my sophomore year. I still don't have the skills,...
GRIER FILLEY

A lot of images that are traded and distributed are old. If they were taken years ago, it doesn't ma...
GRIER WEEKS

You can't just give people an ID card and everyone relaxes.
GRIER WEEKS

They're both working almost exclusively with children.
GRIER WEEKS

Sex offenders look for an opportunity to be around children, and driving an ice cream truck is one w...
GRIER WEEKS

There's a lot of people who take an interest in it.
GRIER STANLEY

He's looking for an opportunity to speak on campus to allow this organization to grow. Instead of sa...
GRIER STANLEY

We really need them to stay there because the numbers over there are ridiculous. It's important that...
GRIER STANLEY

It's for his own money or to keep him healthy. It's for his own food or his family's needs.
GRIER STANLEY

When you're away from it for a while, you kind of have a tendency to forget just how good of a golf ...
GRIER JONES

Deere Run is a good golf course, but it seems like we've never been out of our rain gear when we're ...
GRIER JONES

The kids battled. We had two kids shoot 40 on the front side and another shoot 41, and they all shot...
GRIER JONES

The accomplishment of working hard at something and then finally getting it (is my favorite part of ...
GRIER FILLEY

We needed to plan the tour around his schedule. It's just now is the first time he's available.
JOSH GRIER

He's starting to realize that's what it takes to play in this league day in and day out - you've got...
MIKE GRIER

If US intelligence agencies had spent more time studying the evidence in their possession, the presi...
PETER GRIER

Coach had challenged me to come out early and get some buckets. The basket just got bigger. In the e...
VINCENT GRIER

Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be ...
PAM GRIER

Life is so unfair that one is more likely to get into some sort of trouble than be rewarded if one a...
JOHN P. GRIER

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
JOHN P. GRIER

You are only young once, but you can be immature for a lifetime.
JOHN P. GRIER

The undersea world surrounding Green Island looks just like a water fairyland.
MEHGAN HEANEY-GRIER

I hate to admit this, but before we had a baby I was kind of weirded out by breastfeeding. It looked...
DAVID ALAN BASCHE

Comedy can be more difficult than drama. It requires more attention to timing. In the theater, you&#...
DAVID ALAN BASCHE

A fan once stopped me outside a theatre and gave me as a gift a signed photograph of Sir Laurence Ol...
DAVID ALAN BASCHE

I'm a huge fan of 'The Odd Couple,' yes, and any comparisons to Tony Randall and or Jack...
DAVID ALAN BASCHE

Though television is a smaller medium than the stage, you can't be afraid to be big.
DAVID ALAN BASCHE

I watched Mark Rylance in the Broadway revival of 'La Bete,' and it knocked my socks off. Th...
DAVID ALAN BASCHE

Stop running around, stop trying to return every email in your inbox immediately, stop cramming too ...
DAVID ALAN BASCHE

I'm happy to be the guy on the subway that people stare at and they just can't quite place i...
DAVID ALAN BASCHE

I love the sitcom schedule. It takes a week to make an episode, but we don't work on weekends. I...
DAVID ALAN BASCHE

I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. I've got no plans to stop doing it.
DAVID ALAN BASCHE

I have to admit: I have been known to be obsessively neat and like things arranged 'just so.'...
DAVID ALAN BASCHE

I do have a chore schedule - in my mind. I don't tell anyone I have it, but it's in my mind.
DAVID ALAN BASCHE

The first moment I saw my wife breastfeed our daughter minutes after birth, I was hit with a thunder...
DAVID ALAN BASCHE

When I met Bono at the Cannes Film festival while I was there for the film 'United 93,' he s...
DAVID ALAN BASCHE

You have to be careful what you say in front of comedy writers because they will absolutely make fun...
DAVID ALAN BASCHE

I love comedy because I can laugh at myself. I don't take myself too seriously.
DAVID ALAN BASCHE

I'm grateful for my health, glad I'm making people laugh, glad my wife still likes me after ...
DAVID ALAN BASCHE

Selling is simply the transfer of inthusiasm.
ALAN

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
ALAN WATTS

I think most people have that crazy uncle they sit at Thanksgiving dinner with: someone they disagre...
ALAN COLMES

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
ALAN PERLIS

Even in our deep ocean, there are ecosystems at work with no light whatsoever down in the deepest po...
ALAN STERN

Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
ALAN BENNETT

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
ALAN BENNETT

I always feel over-appreciated but underestimated.
ALAN BENNETT

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me ch...
ALAN BENNETT

I'm less genial than people think, but I'm too timid to seem nasty.
ALAN BENNETT

I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, but people don't qu...
ALAN BENNETT

I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fall...
ALAN BENNETT

I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
ALAN BENNETT

I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in that...
ALAN BENNETT

All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
ALAN BENNETT

We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's...
ALAN BENNETT

Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
ALAN BENNETT

I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The...
ALAN BENNETT

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
ALAN BENNETT

Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
ALAN BENNETT

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception...
ALAN BENNETT

Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
ALAN BENNETT

Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; o...
ALAN BENNETT

Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.
ALAN BENNETT

If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
ALAN KING

I have such a stressful job that the only way I can get it out of my mind is by running hard.
ALAN TURING

I have had a dream indicating rather clearly that I am on the way to being hetero, though I don'...
ALAN TURING

I want a permanent relationship, and I might feel inclined to reject anything which of its nature co...
ALAN TURING

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two ...
ALAN TURING

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brai...
ALAN TURING

I want to enjoy not getting recognised while it lasts. But the mask is a symbol of unity. Anyone can...
ALAN WALKER

Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.
ALAN BULLOCK

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
ALAN WATTS

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
ALAN PERLIS

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
ALAN KAY

I'll work overtime to open the doors of opportunity to industry and commerce.
ALAN AUTRY

Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, il...
ALAN MOORE

I like Jacques Derrida; I think he's funny. I like my philosophy with a few jokes and puns. I kn...
ALAN MOORE

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
ALAN WATTS

Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ

Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.
ALAN DERSHOWITZ

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
ALAN PATON

You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven...
ALAN GREENSPAN

I was conveniently bisexual for a long time, and then I went, 'Come on, who am I kidding?' A...
ALAN BALL

Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.
ALAN PARKER

I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it pers...
ALAN BALL

Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go u...
ALAN GREENSPAN

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, ...
ALAN WATTS

There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world insid...
ALAN MOORE

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of ea...
ALAN KAY

If we don't re-charge the American Brand, all future challenges - economic, social and political...
ALAN SIEGEL

On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12....
ALAN RICKMAN

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impos...
ALAN WATTS

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
ALAN WATTS

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they...
ALAN WATTS

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is a...
ALAN WATTS

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about th...
ALAN WATTS

I owe my solitude to other people.
ALAN WATTS

We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
ALAN WATTS

Saints need sinners.
ALAN WATTS

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
ALAN WATTS

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
ALAN WATTS

No work for love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans fo...
ALAN WATTS

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the s...
ALAN WATTS

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instr...
ALAN WATTS

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
ALAN WATTS

Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in t...
ALAN KEYES

Arsenal paid a lot of money for him a few years ago but he found it difficult to claim a first-team ...
ALAN CURBISHLEY

It was a great night for us and a great achievement. Who knows what will happen in the next round. I...
ALAN CURBISHLEY

There has not really been a lot going on for Stephan, he has not had many saves to make. I want to h...
ALAN CURBISHLEY

There may be players wanting to leave, and obviously I have a surplus in the forward area, so this w...
ALAN CURBISHLEY

I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.
ALAN CUMMING

Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?
ALAN CUMMING

It's a sort of anti-Broadway musical. It's odd, disjointed and spiky.
ALAN CUMMING

Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what...
ALAN CUMMING

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.
ALAN CUMMING

It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.
ALAN CUMMING

When Brian went by me, I thought he was some guy that jumped on the course.
ALAN CULPEPPER

In Athens, I was running in long sleeves and pants in the summertime to acclimate as much as I could...
ALAN CULPEPPER

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