Pam Grier Quotes (42 Quotes)


    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.

    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.

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

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

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


    I like to do all kinds of films.

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

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

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


    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.

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

    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.

    I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

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

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

    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.

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

    I am really blessed and very grateful for it.

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

    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.

    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.

    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.

    My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.

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

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

    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'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.

    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.

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

    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.

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


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

    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.

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

    That's what I crave that diversity.

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

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

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

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


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