Pam Grier Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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 love the hip-hop nation.

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

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

I like to do all kinds of films.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 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'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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.