Pam Grier famous quotes

03-28-2025

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

#Character #Yellow #Rights
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

#Thank You #Character #Research
I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.
-- Pam Grier

#Beautiful #Stills
I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.
-- Pam Grier

#People #Different #Film
Thats what I crave that diversity.
-- Pam Grier

#Diversity
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

#Appearance #Emphasis #Grew
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

#Dark #African American #Black
I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.
-- Pam Grier

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

#Believe #Artist #Should
My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions.
-- Pam Grier

#Race #My Family
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

#People #Gains #Film
My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.
-- Pam Grier

#People #Colorado #Homesteading
But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.
-- Pam Grier

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

#Years #Four #Comeback
I like to do all kinds of films.
-- Pam Grier

#Kind #Film #All Kinds
I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.
-- Pam Grier

#Poverty #Circumstances
Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.
-- Pam Grier

#Sexy #Beans #Rice
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

#Art #Waiting #Entertainment
The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.
-- Pam Grier

#Firsts #Saws #Godzilla
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

#Gay #Issues #Conflict
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

#Country #Gay #Air
Some day I want to play a grandmother. And a foxy one at that!
-- Pam Grier

#Grandmother #Play #Goal
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

#Names #People #Care
There are just certain realities about our world and I just happen to be creative within it.
-- Pam Grier

#Creativity #Reality #Our World
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

#Struggle #Winning #Race
I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.
-- Pam Grier

#Serious #Kind #Film
Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.
-- Pam Grier

#Fighting #Worth Fighting For
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

#Children #Heart #Thinking

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