Grizz Chapman

“I was on dialysis three times a week for four and a half hours each time.”

“I pay attention to everything now - the taste of bread, the taste of water.”

“Tracy and I were pretty good friends before '30 Rock.' The chemistry you see on camera - that's what it is. What you see on camera - that's just friends, so that's why it comes across so well on TV.”

“I'm the biggest nerd you know. I'm a nerd, I'm a techie, and I don't have a problem with saying it.”

“I was a celebrity bodyguard. I didn't keep the best hours or choose the best food when I was on the road.”

“Ryan is an amazing person. When I was his age, I wasn't thinking about giving someone a kidney. How do you ever repay someone for something like that? You can't. It's not like borrowing $20 from someone and telling them you're going to give it back. It's something that you can never repay someone for.”

“My agent knows what I'm looking for. And I'm also looking for a new agent, too, so I'm putting it out there. Again, I'm not going to turn down every role, because there is no bad role, really. It's all what you bring to the role, but that traditional, 'Stand here and open a rope,' I'm not doing it.”

“Opening up is something I have to learn how to do if I'm going to be in this business.”

“Keep your blood pressure under control and pay attention to your urine. If it's foamy, that's not a good sign, and you need to check out your kidneys.”

“Being a nerd is not always a bad thing. It's actually cool to be a nerd.”

“I want to show there's an edgier side of people who love comic books. And there are people who don't look like you and me who do read comic books and who love artists.”

“I was diagnosed with hypertension when I was 24, and I battled hypertension for about 10 to 12 years, and then I went to the doctor for something else, and he found that I had high levels of protein in my urine, and that's how I found out I had kidney disease.”

“I'm on a never-ending quest to get back on a TV series, and I want to get on 'The Walking Dead.'”

“Even though you don't feel anything, you need to get an annual check-up.”

“Why can't a seven-foot guy play a doctor? Why can't I be a teacher? Why can't I be a football coach? Why can't I be a cab driver? Anything. Anything else than that. I can cry. I can do those things that they think the big guys can't do. So just give us a chance.”

“You can't take away that Liz Lemon is my boo; you can't take that away.”

“I was in a form of a prison: not necessarily with bars, but I was locked to that machine three days a week, and I couldn't plan work, I couldn't plan vacations, I couldn't plan dinner, I couldn't plan homework, I couldn't plan nothing because at the end of the day, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, I had to be at dialysis.”

“You can put a kidney in your body - and somewhere down the line, your body might reject it.”

“Whatever I can do for the longevity of my life, I'm going to do.”

“When you go through something, like, you learn to appreciate little things - the birds, trees, flowers.”