Quotes by Pam Grier

• This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
• It's always fun to put on bell bottoms and have your butt hanging out and hip huggers.
• Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.
• My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions.
• My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.
• 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.
• 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.
• You can be on top of everything, and the next minute, you're going to be on the bottom.
• There are just certain realities about our world and I just happen to be creative within it.
• Today, many people are engaging in same sex relationships and saying they are not gay.
• Well who's black and what is a black person?
• 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.
• Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.
• But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.
• I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
• 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.
• The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.
• I like to do all kinds of films.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 am really blessed and very grateful for it.
• I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.
• I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist.
• 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 like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.
• I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.
• I love science fiction.
• I love the hip-hop nation.
• 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.
• I thought I would be Sheena of the Jungle as a little girl.
• 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 grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.
• I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.