Pam Grier Quotes

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.

I am really blessed and very grateful for it.

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

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.

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 really hate to see abusive behavior being passed on from generation to generation to generation, when we have access to health and counseling.

I'm not a total feminist, but I believe in rights for females.

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

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 just going to try to do the best work at whatever I'm going to be, and I don't think I'm going to be an actress.

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

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.

Anything involving the camera, you're passionate about. Because there's no movies without it.

You never know how people are going to respond.

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.

Our culture is revered and it inspires people all around the globe.

I was a child of the women's movement.

Everything I had learned was from my mother and my grandmother, who both had a very pioneering spirit. They had to, because they had to change flat tires and paint the house - because, you know, the men didn't come home from the war or whatever else, so women had to do these things.

I want to direct and work with the youngins and the fabulous actors of today.

It's the best honor when someone wants to use as their professional title the name of a character that you portrayed.

Thats what I crave that diversity.

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

I will not be on this planet. I may come back in another form, and you know, I'll come back as a white man.

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?

Out of necessity comes genius.

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

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

I was kind of a bouncy kid. I used to roller-skate into the sides of cars.

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

At the beginning, my ambition was never to break down doors.

It was just to earn tuition for myself and work in an industry where women hadn't been allowed or invited. That's all I wanted to do, not thinking that I would make waves, change minds, excite people, incite people, turn on people, repulse people.

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

The African-American community is not monolithic. It's liberal and conservative.

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

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

My grandfather was the first feminist in my life.

He taught me if a woman can do something, a man will respect her.

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

I like to do all kinds of films.

When you come from an environment that's military, and they don't stress that topic of aesthetics or beauty pageants and makeup, there are a lot of things you just don't have that city girls have. Or the country girl who goes to movies and dreams of going to Hollywood as an actress.

I love the hip-hop nation.

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

Women were victims. Their husbands could beat them up when they wanted to. They couldn't work. They could be maimed and killed by their husbands.

I'm still trying to do films about black women.

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

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

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.

My passion is to tell stories that reflect humanity.

I consider myself conscious of how we're treated, and sometimes I can be a feminist.

My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.

You can get hurt at any time.