David Alan Grier Quotes

American - Comedian | July 30, 1956 -

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

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

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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.

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

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I decided sitcoms weren't for me.

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The president is always made fun of.

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

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My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.

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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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