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

I grew up in a home and in a world in which you can do anything. We were all expected to go to college. My father was a doctor. — David Alan 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

The president is always made fun of. — David Alan 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

I like being the center of attention. I want to be in the limelight, basically. — Nash Grier

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

My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea. — David Alan Grier

There's people saying that 'Jackie Brown' was a blaxploitation movie, when there's nothing at all blaxploitation about it other than Pam Grier being in it. — Michael Jai White

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

I've tried actively to define myself and redefine myself, and not be pigeonholed. — David Alan 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

I am passionate about my family, adventure, good wine, nature and the outdoors, sharks, the ocean, and working hard to preserve it all for future generations. — Mehgan Heaney-Grier

I have a talent for missing the best and greatest parties. — David Alan Grier

I couldn't wait to be, you know, a Black Panther. Of course they wouldn't let me join. — David Alan Grier

America is grappling with cultural diversity, and I just want to put a show on that represents the world in which I live. — David Alan Grier

I never wanted to lose out on an acting job and wonder if I hadn't been trained enough. — David Alan Grier

Designing a collection with Aeropostale was completely surreal. — Nash Grier

When I was a kid, I wanted to walk with my dad's limp - my dad was my hero - but that infuriated him, and he would make me walk back and forth in the living room until I walked without it. — David Alan 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

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

Get him in leg irons and transport him to the hospital," Grier told him curtly.
"I need a doctor," Clark raged. "I'm shot. My hand's
bleeding!"
Grier stared at him. "If you make a move I don't like,
you'll need a mortician," he said with pure malice, and
abruptly spun the Colt with a professional skill that made
Clark back up a step. — Diana Palmer

Some days I think I look kind of cute, but other days I try to avoid the mirror. — David Alan 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, myself, identify myself as a heathen. — David Alan Grier

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

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

Thats what I crave that diversity. — Pam Grier

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

I cannot bear to think that our young men are merely living four years in a country club and spending their lives wholly in a spirit of calculation and snobbishness. — John Grier Hibben

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

I wanted something where I could have the clearest and most unfiltered artistic and creative voice. — David Alan Grier

There may be a soul of the world, there may be ... a psychical side, of which we are not aware, to every atom in the universe, and the psychical side, like the moon, may show us ever but the one face, the other forever in the shadow; but, at best, this is only a conjecture, it presents no solid foundation upon which to rest a theory. — John Grier Hibben

I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw 'The Negro' get one over on 'The Man.' — Samuel L. Jackson

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

You just want to see me naked," Alec peeled off his shirt, then
popped the buttons on his jeans and slid them low on his hips.
"I've seen you naked. Or have you forgotten?"
Alec winced when Grier probed the wound. "Oh yeah. What'd
you think, by the way?"
"The room was cold, so I won't hold it against you. — Libby Drew

My father was a doctor. — David Alan Grier

You can play professional lacrosse, but they make less than a teacher's salary now. I always thought about that. And it's a very difficult career, a short career, as a pro athlete. — Nash 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

The undersea world surrounding Green Island looks just like a water fairyland. — Mehgan Heaney-Grier

Many of my early Vines and collaborations were with gay people. — Nash Grier

Towards the end of summer 2013, when school ended, I decided to re-download all of my social media channels and make videos again. The next day, I woke up and had 9,000 followers. I did the same thing the next day and woke up with 54,000 followers. — Nash Grier

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

I started acting at the University of Michigan in my sophomore year. — David Alan Grier

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

Every little kid has always wanted to be a race car driver. This gets some of that out. — David Alan Grier

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

I love the hip-hop nation. — Pam Grier

'Dancing With the Stars' is so Middle America, and people take it so seriously. — David Alan Grier

Understand how all things are interconnected, including you. — Mehgan Heaney-Grier

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

I try to make my bed every day for mental health. Coming home to an unmade bed or a room with clothes all over will depress me. — David Alan Grier

I'm not 'Will's brother' anymore. Will is my brother. I'm paving the way for all middle children out there. — Nash Grier

I love entertaining people, and I want to pursue it. — Nash Grier

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

Be talented enough to make it and stupid enough to keep trying. — David Alan Grier

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

Think. Learn. Act. The more you know, the better and more educated choices you have the opportunity to make. — Mehgan Heaney-Grier

I think Chelsea Handler is the funniest woman. — David Alan Grier

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

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

I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman. — David Alan Grier

I accept you, and you get the same respect from me whether you are black, white, gay straight, Asian, bisexual, Australian, tall, fat, whatever it is. We are all people, and I look at the people of the world the same way, as my brothers and sisters. — Nash Grier

I'll stay with her," Maude interrupted, just before
Grier could say the same thing.
"You can't. Not in intensive care. You can see her three
times a day, for no more than ten minutes each time," he
added firmly. "It's too serious. She has to be kept quiet.
No upsets."
Judd looked as if he'd die trying not to snap at the surgeon. But he finally just nodded defeatedly.
Coltrain put a rough hand on his shoulder. "Don't borrow trouble. Take it one hour at a time. You'll get through this."
"Think so?" Judd asked heavily.
"I know so. I'll keep a close watch on her. Try not to
worry." He nodded to the others and went back down the
hall.
Judd looked at the other three people with him. "I'm
glad you're all here. But if anybody gets into that room,
even for a minute, it's going to be me," he said shortly.
Cash looked inclined to argue, but the expression on
Judd's face made him back down. — Diana Palmer

A friend of mine had his own theater company, and he jumped me in like I was in a gang. And once I came in, it was just that simple. For the first time in my life, I felt, 'This is a career, this is a life that I think I can grow old doing.' It was love at first sight. I loved being on stage and reading these plays. It was great. — David Alan Grier

I want to see gay couples stuck with their significant other at Home Depot with that far away look in their eye, get me out of here. — David Alan 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've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't. — Pam Grier

What do you think is my favourite book? Just now, I mean; I change every three days. "Wuthering Heights." Emily Bronte was quite young when she wrote it, and had never been outside of Haworth churchyard. She had never known any men in her life; how could she imagine a man like Heathcliff?
I couldn't do it, and I'm quite young and never outside the John Grier Asylum - I've had every chance in the world. Sometimes a dreadful fear comes over me that I'm not a genius. Will you be awfully disappointed, Daddy, if I don't turn out to be a great author? — Jean Webster

When people say 'that's risky,' or when the odds are not in my favor, I'm more motivated than ever. — Nash Grier

Be happy. Don't make a Vine about, like, something not that happy. — Nash Grier

To be known by the public, honestly. People come up and tell them how good I make them feel. — David Alan Grier

A philosopher ... is not fairly judged by his eccentricities, nor by the frailties to which he is liable; still less should his philosophy as a whole fall into ill-repute because of those among its devotees who have stumbled into wells, or who aimlessly pass their lives in whetting their faculties and then neglecting to use them. — John Grier Hibben

I am really blessed and very grateful for it. — 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 like to do all kinds of films. — Pam Grier

My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call 'Little House on the Prairie' tales, but they were tales of segregated and racist America growing up in Alabama and Mississippi, where she came from. — David Alan 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

Run from me, Grier Hadley, and I'll follow. I'll track you down and find you. — Sophie Jordan

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

Never, ever lose hope. We must not lose hope. — Mehgan Heaney-Grier

If, by chance, you find that you are losing hope, tap back into those who inspire you. — Mehgan Heaney-Grier

I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success. — David Alan 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

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

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

What is reality? Is it not merely a term for the philosopher to conjure with, behind which he may craftily conceal his ignorance? — John Grier Hibben

I decided sitcoms weren't for me. — David Alan Grier

Don't let anyone try to tell you who you are. Define yourself. — David Alan Grier

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

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

Dear Judy: Your letter is here. I have read it twice, and with amazement. Do I understand that Jervis has given you, for a Christmas present, the making over of the John Grier Home into a model institution, and that you have chosen me to disburse the money? Me - I, Sallie McBride, the head of an orphan asylum! My poor people, have you lost your senses, or have you become addicted to the use of opium, and is the raving of two fevered imaginations? I am exactly as well fitted to take care of one hundred children as to become the curator of a zoo. — Jean Webster

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

As I get older, my sense of humor is my biggest asset. — David Alan 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