Top 188 Grey Quotes

I think I was an alcoholic. There are all these grey areas about what makes you an alcoholic – you can’t cope without it, you stop caring about jobs and relationships, or you just binge.

To me, most of life kind of lives in the grey and I don’t just mean morally. I just mean kind of everything. If things were black and white it would be a lot clearer as to what to do all the time.

On ‘Grey’s Anatomy,’ I didn’t have to move too much. I think I ran through the hospital three times.

On ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ I wouldn’t care what I was playing – I would play a corpse, ’cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.

Sometimes, the smaller roles in movies can be the most interesting. If you only take the stance that you’ll only play central characters in movies, you’ll find yourself not being able to indulge in that morally grey terrain that makes support characters so rich and interesting.

Extending our lives, extending our creativity, opening up the mysteries of the brain. All those things that are really exciting – that’s kind of the basis of ‘Neon Future,’ and that’s why I interviewed Ray Kurzweil and Aubrey de Grey.

I love wearing green, and I like grey and black, but I don’t think they really suit me.

I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.

I’m proud of ‘Fifty Shades of Grey.’ I don’t need to distance myself from that. The more work I do, the more the general public sees the different things I can do. Do I think it opened doors? Yeah. More people know my name.

I went grey at 12, my eyesight went at 17. I’ve been a crock from very early on.

The only pair of trousers a guy needs are grey flannel.

I’ve always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giants or elves or dwarves, or whatever they are, they’re still human, and the human heart is still in conflict with the self.

I think the parts that I played sort of broke the mould in terms of – you know, I played grey characters, the bad girl with a good heart, there was a good reason for her to be bad.

After the ‘Grey Album,’ everyone thought of me as the hip-hop guy, the remix maestro. I didn’t know how to show them otherwise.

Characters, like people, don’t need to be right – only understood and, perhaps, accepted. We are all grey, lighter and darker, depending on our state of security.

I think most Minnesotans are in a grey zone politically.

Shonda and ‘Grey’s’ have given me the opportunity to become a director, and that’s something that I hadn’t really envisioned for myself, other than directing for theater. Now I’ve got this resume of television credits that I can carry forward into the next opportunity.

It’s always great to see grey hairs in a crowd; people who are older have been to a lot more gigs than the kids; they’ve seen everything, so seeing them in the crowd means we’ve earned their applause.

My mother was a reader; my father was a reader. Not anything particularly sophisticated. My mother read fat historical or romantic novels; my father liked to read Westerns, Zane Grey, that kind of stuff. Whatever they brought in, I read.

That first year I was doing ‘Grey’s,’ I didn’t know it was possible to fire the creator of a show off their own show, so I didn’t behave like somebody who was afraid of being fired.

I got ‘The Grey’ made because Liam Neeson wanted to make that movie.

We have people say, ‘There’s not enough women writers.’ I have a writers room that is almost nothing but women over at ‘Grey’s Anatomy.’

I believe in monstrosities, and ‘I Am Abraham’ is a monstrosity of sorts, raveling out moment by moment with its contrapuntal songs, as if a band of musicians were at play, all of them with Lincoln’s beard and disturbing grey eyes.

You know, I don’t talk about the characters that I play. Years ago, I was a little timid about it and I kind of squirmed when I was asked, ‘Could you tell us something about your character.’ Now with a little self-confidence that comes with the grey beard, I just flatly refuse.

We shouldn’t build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on.

On ‘Question Time,’ I’ve noticed great anger from the audience. When we discuss Brexit, emotions range from white-hot fury to cold, grey apathy. As soon as we move off Brexit, debate is much more nuanced and considered.

No characters in ‘Stay Close,’ including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.

I don’t know why my leading men have grey shades. Maybe I am trying to explore that side of me through them.

I learned how to write TV by writing ‘Grey’s Anatomy.’

I’ll spend the rest of my life chasing that feeling I had on ‘The Grey,’ because I think we’re all aware that, first and foremost, we were having an adventure, and we were also making this movie at the same time.

My first job in advertising was actually in the mailroom of Grey Advertising in Sydney.

A good cup of Earl Grey tea – you can’t beat it.

George M. is where I met my dear friend Joel Grey. We connected at rehearsal one day during a five-minute break. We were both looking out the same window and we knew in five minutes that we’d made a connection.

Performance in any sport can never be broken down into black and white. There’s a lot of grey in the nature of sport.

If anything, ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ is a generic romance cynically engineered to appeal to the lowest common denominator of female fantasy.

Shonda Rhimes, especially, saw something in me that no one had and then wrote to my strengths for ‘Grey’s Anatomy.’ That’s the job I think really opened up a whole new world for me.

When you have heart disease, you start to be tired of everything. It’s like getting older. You become more white, and after that, grey. You have no feeling for anything.

I don’t think people get the pressure of becoming famous and what it does for an artist. What does that for your creative self. And what that can do for your mental health. And I would say, from year two to year six or eight of ‘Grey’s,’ it was extremely difficult and very stressful and traumatic, if I’m being honest.

‘Bridgerton’ is something a bit like if Jane Austen met Gossip Girl’ and maybe like 45 Shades of Grey.’

God bless ABC. They are my knights in shining armor. I love their content. Just as a person, I’m a huge fan of ‘Scandal,’ I still love ‘Grey’s Anatomy,’ and ‘Resurrection’ looks amazing.

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

None of us are good or evil, and that frustrates us because we want to see others as wearing a white hat or black hat. My hat is grey.

Stop letting Grey’s Anatomy’ fool you into doing pre-med.

Yes, the hunky barista looks even more terrifically masculine with three days’ growth on his chin. Guys under 50 mostly do. But when your beard is partly or largely grey, that stubble can just look a little unwashed. Sadly, when you’re over 50, different rules apply.

America owed its military renaissance in the 1980s and 1990s to Vietnam. Veterans like Norman Schwartzkopf, Colin Powell, Alfred Grey, Charles Krulak, and Wesley Clark returned home angry and ashamed at their defeat and rebuilt all-volunteer, professional armed forces from the ground up.

I would love not to take cricket home but I don’t do shades of grey. I need to be 100 per cent committed.

I wanted to become a lawyer because I saw Kelly McGillis on ‘The Accused.’ ‘Grey’s Anatomy,’ ‘L.A. Law,’ ‘Ally McBeal’ – all of these have inspired women to go into law. I think the opposite is happening in technology.

Leather pants are my guilty fashion pleasure. I have at least 10 pairs in navy, red, white, dusty pink, grey, suede and black.

After my neurosurgery, part of my brain was missing, and I had to deal with that. It wasn’t the grey matter, but it was the gooey part dead center that makes key hormones and neurotransmitters.

There are a lot of grey areas in ‘The Cry’ and the grey is what I’m interested in as an actor.

It wasn’t the ‘miracle of engineering’ that is the human body that was filling me with a mad desire to live my days and nights in a pair of scrubs. The hard truth was I did not remotely want to be a surgeon. I actually just wanted to be on ‘Grey’s Anatomy.’

My role in ‘Humsafars’ is very interesting and unlike any role I have done in the past. Anam is a strong character with a few shades of grey.

I’m not worried about wrinkles on my cheeks, or going grey. I’m not trying to be 20.

Mash-ups have gained a lot of credibility between the fall of Danger Mouse’s infamous ‘Grey Album’ and the rise of Girl Talk’s overwhelming mega-mixes. There’s just something marvelous about hearing seemingly mismatched ideas work together, as two worlds collide to a heavy beat.

Frank Castle knows only two sides: Good and Evil. There is no grey zone for him.

I used to think I saw life in blacks or whites, turns out I was more grey. It is extremely liberating to care for people even if they are flawed, you needn’t eschew the whole person for a few not so shiny, sparkly parts.