John Grisham

Grisham, John Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Hot Coffee

  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Playing for Pizza

  2010, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's The Rainmaker'

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Forbes Celebrity 100: Who Made Bank?

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Mississippi Rising

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Mickey

  2004, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Christmas with the Kranks

  2004, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Mickey

  2004, role: actor , character name: Commissioner
• Play in Full Screen Mickey

  2004, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen A Painted House

  2003, role: actor , character name: Narrator
• Play in Full Screen The Street Lawyer

  2003, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen A Painted House

  2003, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen A Painted House

  2003, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Runaway Jury

  2003, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Street Lawyer

  2003, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Waking in Mississippi

  1998, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Gingerbread Man

  1998, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Rainmaker

  1997, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen A Time to Kill

  1996, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen The Chamber

  1996, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen A Time to Kill

  1996, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Client

  1994, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Pelican Brief

  1993, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Firm

  1993, role: writer

Famous quotes by John Grisham:

"We don't normally publicize gifts. It's something we keep extremely private. But in these very, very rare circumstances -- this tragic time -- we hope the gift will get some attention and inspire other people to contribute money and help our fellow Mississippians on the Gulf Coast,"

"In these very, very rare circumstances -- this tragic time -- we hope the gift will get some attention and inspire other people to contribute money and help our fellow Mississippians on the Gulf Coast,"

"When you make charitable contributions, you realize you can't save the world, so you find a small area you can go into and hopefully do some good and do it with your own money and your own sweat and you see the results."

"A Time to Kill."

"We didn't want to leave. You feel guilty because you can hop on a plane and come back home where everything works and everything is standing,"

"One of the reasons we wanted to target Mississippi is, obviously, we are from there,"

"We are very fortunate people. We never publicize gifts. We try to avoid publicity, but we decided this may be the time to do so and inspire other people."

"We don't normally publicize gifts. It's something we keep extremely private."

"I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer. I wrote only after witnessing a trial."

"I was never a bookworm. I remember reading Dr. Seuss, the Hardy Boys, Emil and the Detectives, Chip Hilton, and lots of Mark Twain and Dickens. My athletic ability did nothing but invite taunts. I was an indifferent student and an athlete with delusions of adequacy, dreams of adulation."

"We are extremely private, and we really got sort of ambushed by the notoriety."

"Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk."

"My name became a brand, and I'd love to say that was the plan from the start. But the only plan was to keep writing books. And I've stuck to that ever since."

"We have the crime of the century every six months. So for people like me who enjoy, you know, taking these stories and writing about them, the material is endless."

"Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million."

"I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not."

"And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions."

"The Deep South has the friendliest people in the world. They will do anything for you. They also want to know what's going on and won't hesitate to ask questions."

"I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never get out. They can never escape. They can never be paroled. Lock the bad ones away. But you gotta rethink everybody else."

"I always do book signings with the same blue pen. That way, if I add a personalised message to a book I've already signed, it'll be in the same colour as my signature."

John Grisham