Topher Grace

Trivia

• Topher Grace contributed to and supports Barack Obama for the 2008 presidential campaign.
• Likes R&B, classic rock, and anything by Barry White.
• Has an extensive collection of baseball caps.
• His favorite performances are James Stewart in It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and Bill Murray in Groundhog Day (1993).
• Topher Grace didn't like being called Chris as a kid, so he changed his name to Topher by dropping Chris from Christopher for show business.
• Topher Grace left That 70's Show after seven seasons along with Ashton Kutcher, but returned sporadically as a guest star in the final season.
• Since all of his friends would shorten his given name from Christopher to Chris (which he did not like), he began using the half of his name that everyone else seemed to discard (Topher).
• He filmed all his scenes in P.S. in 14 days.
• He had expressed an interest in working with directors Richard Linklater, PJ Hogan, Robert Zemeckis, Spike Jonze, Steven Soderbergh (again), and Steven Spielberg.
• Not one to let his success go to his head, Topher Grace drives a 1985 Volvo, a green Honda, and Volkswagen Jetta.

Quotes

• "I had to ask things like, 'Who is Nipsey Russell?' and 'What was Petticoat Junction?'... I play an awkward teenage boy who gets rejected. I've done so much research in that department, I can't even begin to tell you... Sometimes I look at the clothes, I wonder, 'What the hell were they thinking?"
• "I'm really open about talking about how green I am and how I want learn. I want to be the least good person in any project I do."
• "There is a way people like to compartmentalize you on sitcoms and I've been very cognizant of not letting that happen."
• "I was in the 8th grade, and I got up the nerve to ask this girl to a dance. I had a really big crush on her, but she had no idea. She was at her locker, and I just walked up to her and blurted it out. She just said, 'No.' She didn't try to lessen the blow by saying, 'I'll see you there,' or something. I think she even laughed a bit. And I remember everyone in the hallway watching."
• "The show is now like a game of trying to not laugh during takes, you know, to not break character and laugh. It's so much fun."
• "It's heartbreaking, because there's no funner job in the universe than being one of those six kids. I was in my teens when I started. It's ridiculous to even try to imagine my life without being able to laugh all day with those five people. I never cry, like ever, but I have a feeling it's coming."
• "I don't talk about my personal life with the press."
• "I do like any kind of project that has both comedy and drama in it because in life you don't have one day where everything is funny then the next day everything is dramatic."
• "I'm very social. It's just most of my friends are not actors."
• "Most of my freshmen year at USC I'd just been partying, and I had zero direction."