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David Alan Grier says that, early on in his career, he fibbed about the work he had done in the past<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
In a new interview, the actor and comedian admits that in his first bio featured in a playbill, he wrote that he had “performed in comedy clubs all across the country”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
But Grier had not, he admitted, saying: “I was speaking it into the universe”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
David Alan Grier<\/a> is opening up about how he once padded his professional r\u00e9sum\u00e9 \u2014 and did some manifesting at the same time.<\/p>\n Speaking in a career retrospective hosted by SAG-AFTRA, Grier, 69, recalled, “You know what’s really crazy? Someone brought a playbill from … my first professional job.”<\/p>\n “I played Jackie Robinson [in Broadway’s The First<\/em> in 1983], and in my r\u00e9sum\u00e9 \u2014 I didn’t have any credits \u2014 but in my r\u00e9sum\u00e9, I put, you know, ‘David has performed in comedy clubs all across the country,’ ” he said, adding, “I was speaking it into the universe.”<\/p>\n Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for PEOPLE’s <\/strong>free daily newsletter<\/a><\/strong> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n