Pam Grier Quotes

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"I love science fiction."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

"My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation."

"I like to do all kinds of films."

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

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

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

"I love the hip-hop nation."

"I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances."

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