David Alan Grier Quotes

I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

I do not want to say I'm a product designer. I've been trying all my life to not be categorized, to learn something and then to forget about it.

When you don't inherit an identity you have to define it on your own.

I'm history! No, I'm mythology! Nah, I don't care what I am, I'm free!

Every act is an act of self definition.

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

We need a place in which we may flourish and be ourselves.

I'm always trying to slip out of those labels everyone tries to put round your neck. We all have multiple selves.

I don't care much about conforming.

I don't want to be identified by any one role I do.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

For one thing I tend not to see myself in various moulds that people fit me into.

I've always wrestled against being typified in one way or another.

People have certain ideas of what they think you should be, and I have fought that categorisation my whole life.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

I have a natural tendency to resist conformity.

It's interesting to be at once an insider and outsider. It's a way of learning how to find your way freely without the need of conforming or belonging.

I've been able to define who I am and my brother is able to do his thing.

What I am trying to do is create a space for people to explore what they want to be, as opposed to fit into a label that they have been given.

I don't want to be seen in a way where all I can do is what people expect of me.