Pam Grier Quotes

My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.

I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.

That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin; It's by my character.

Struggle and survival, losing and winning, doesn't matter. It's entering the race that counts. You enter, you can win, you can lose .... but it's all about entering the race.

Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.

I really hate to see abusive behavior being passed on from generation to generation to generation, when we have access to health and counseling.

I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist.

Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.

My grandfather was the first feminist in my life. He taught me if a woman can do something, a man will respect her.

And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.

Our culture is revered and it inspires people all around the globe.

I felt beauty was a magnet for abuse, and I had suffered greatly for it.

Sometimes I'm angry, sometimes I'm not angry.

I'm a big child at heart. I think it's important to stay that way and not lose the wonder of life.

I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.

There are just certain realities about our world and I just happen to be creative within it.

Some day I want to play a grandmother. And a foxy one at that!

I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

I will not be on this planet. I may come back in another form, and you know, I'll come back as a white man.

The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.

I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.

But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.

I want to direct and work with the youngins and the fabulous actors of today.

When you are an actor, you bring a tool in your craft but you are not that person.

Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you, they may not tip you, you don't know their names, they don't care about you, you don't care about them.

My passion is to tell stories that reflect humanity.

My mother really wanted me to be in possibly a beauty pageant, not only for if I could win, but it helped improve my self-image because of trauma in my childhood and other issues.

You never know how people are going to respond.

The African-American community is not monolithic. It's liberal and conservative.

Out of necessity comes genius.

My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions.

Thats what I crave that diversity.

As I get older, it's a time to enjoy life.

I like to do all kinds of films.

I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.

Women were victims. Their husbands could beat them up when they wanted to. They couldn't work. They could be maimed and killed by their husbands.

I was kind of a bouncy kid. I used to roller-skate into the sides of cars.

Anything involving the camera, you're passionate about. Because there's no movies without it.

I'm just going to try to do the best work at whatever I'm going to be, and I don't think I'm going to be an actress.

I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.

I don't want to be an actress, because I think that they have to be really pretty, and I'm not.

I never thought I was pretty. I couldn't even put on eyelashes or makeup.

Coming from the '50s, things were very violent.

I'm in film school, so I really have to sock away my money for school, tuition, and so on, and I really don't have time.

You can get hurt at any time.

It's the best honor when someone wants to use as their professional title the name of a character that you portrayed.

We have to have films about action and violence and special effects. That's the sad part, but you know what? It's not me doing it.

I'm still trying to do films about black women.

Sometimes I'm a little Republican, sometimes I'm a little Democrat.