Pam Grier Quotes & Sayings

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. — Pam Grier

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

Well, thank you and that's for them, but for me, I want to look back at a body of work where when you do the research and you explore the psyche of a character, where she's been, where she is and where she's going. — Pam Grier

Let's start working towards wellness, a healing in our community, a healing in relationships, so male and female can finally sit down and understand that that young boy or young girl saw behavior exhibited by their parents that was negative and abusive and they're going to pass it on. — Pam Grier

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

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. — Pam Grier

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

Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then. — Pam Grier

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. — Pam Grier

You can be on top of everything, and the next minute, you're going to be on the bottom. — Pam Grier

Today, many people are engaging in same sex relationships and saying they are not gay. — Pam Grier

My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation. — Pam Grier

This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended. — Pam Grier

I really do not care if it is a B-movie or not. — Pam Grier

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

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

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

I was able to be distant by portraying another person, another character, if you will, and I found myself not stuttering and not having anxiety attacks when I was portraying another soul, another being, and I found comfort in that. I think many actors do, playing someone other than themselves. — Pam Grier

I love the hip-hop nation. — Pam Grier

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

Well who's black and what is a black person? — Pam Grier

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

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

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. — Pam Grier

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

I'm an Air force Brat and I've lived all over the world and this country and there were people in my community who were gay - nurses, hairdressers, designers - people who just had a different way about themselves. — Pam Grier

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

Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue. — Pam Grier

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

Thats what I crave that diversity. — Pam Grier

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

I like to do all kinds of films. — Pam Grier

Each time you do a film you gain a lot of experience and build a visual resume where people get to know who you are. — Pam Grier

I am really blessed and very grateful for it. — Pam Grier

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

I wanted to be in film. I wanted to be a film student, possibly be a director or cinematographer, not an actor. That was my goal. I didn't believe I had the physical beauty that I'd seen projected and advertised in movies, in theater. It just wasn't for me. — Pam Grier

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

It's always fun to put on bell bottoms and have your butt hanging out and hip huggers. — Pam Grier

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. — Pam Grier

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

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances. — Pam Grier

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

I thought I would be Sheena of the Jungle as a little girl. — Pam Grier

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

It makes me forget that I'm not going to be a major star and lead female in films whether it was 20 years ago, 10 years ago, five or in the future. — Pam Grier