Pam Grier Quotations

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.

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

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

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

I am really blessed and very grateful for it.

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

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

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

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

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

Well who's black and what is a black person?

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

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.

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

Showtime is a very good venue that shows a lot of people who might not get to theaters but would see it on cable.

I'm at another level, where I want to act and submit screenplays and possibly direct. That's the uncharted, shark-infested water I want to dip myself into.

I have a wide stretch of film interests because everything is based on Greek tragedy.

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

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

Yeah, but people aren't comfortable with a woman who looks very masculine or rides a motorcycle or wears leather or has facial hair or has short hair.

You get to do your work as an actor.

There's no gay female decorating shows and basically product programming is geared to the widest profit margin which is the widest populace that has the most dollars.

As long as my arms and legs are working, as long as I have my sense of sight and sound, as long as I can just breathe, then that's beautiful.

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.

Everyone knows me at Lowe's and Home Depot. I wanted a chainsaw in pink, but I had to settle for red. People are always asking me how I keep my skin so soft. I tell them, 'I'm frozen all winter.' I'm probably 82 and just don't know it. The poor manicurists on the show scream when they see me coming.

I love working on The L Word because it's entertaining yet political. We're asking real, valid questions, and we're lifting the veil on the lives of a group of people who haven't been seen on television before.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I like to do all kinds of films.

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

Thats what I crave that diversity.

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.

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

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.