Top 87 Quotes & Sayings by Pam Grier - Page 2

I ask you, how would you like your mom, your wife, your daughter to spend $100,000 to go to Harvard or some state school, and go out into the workplace, and you know she's great, and men are getting paid $200 per week more than her? Would that piss you off? What if you lost your job and you stay home crippled while she goes out, and she thinks she's going to get a good job, but someone male with the same level of experience and the same level of education gets paid more than her? You're going to get pissed. Until you walk a mile in someone else's shoes, I don't want to hear it.

Sometimes I'm a little Republican, sometimes I'm a little Democrat.

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.

Thats what I crave that diversity.

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.

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

Coming from the '50s, things were very violent. We were still being lynched. If I drove down through the South with my mother, I might not make it through one state without being bullied or harassed. I feel like unless you've been black for a week, you don't know.

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 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.

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'm still trying to do films about black women.

Coming from the '50s, things were very violent.

I'm in film school, so I really have to sock away my money for school, tuition, and so on, and I really don't have time.

I never thought I was pretty. I couldn't even put on eyelashes or makeup.

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

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

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

I don't want to be an actress, because I think that they have to be really pretty, and I'm not.

You never know how people are going to respond.

We have to have films about action and violence and special effects. That's the sad part, but you know what? It's not me doing it.

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

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

I tell actresses, "If you're too tall, if you're too fat, you're not going to work. I don't care how talented you are." It's a business, and sex sells.

I think people will have great conversations about religions, women's sexuality, gender issues and gay issues.

You can get hurt at any time.

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