Pam Grier Quotes
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I like to do all kinds of films.
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I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.
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I'm a big child at heart. I think it's important to stay that way and not lose the wonder of life.
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I really hate to see abusive behavior being passed on from generation to generation to generation, when we have access to health and counseling.
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Out of necessity comes genius.
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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.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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There are just certain realities about our world and I just happen to be creative within it.
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My grandfather was the first feminist in my life. He taught me if a woman can do something, a man will respect her.
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You can get hurt at any time.
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It's the best honor when someone wants to use as their professional title the name of a character that you portrayed.
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I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.
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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.
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The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.
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I believe that if we have to pay 100 percent for our college tuition, and then we get into the workplace, and we're only given 70 percent of our counterparts' salaries, then we shouldn't have to pay but 70 percent of our college tuition. Maybe that'll stop the bullshit.
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If you're stupid and you're arrogant, you're going to get hurt.
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I don't think I can break down any doors, but I'm thinking, "Maybe I can be a cameraman, because I love the cameras." And the cameraman would show me how to thread the film, how to repair it, the lenses. That's when you become, like, goony goo-goo about it. You breathe and eat camera, and all of a sudden, you don't want anything else in the world. You finally know, "This is my calling." When you're passionate about something, it doesn't become work. It's art and it's fun. It's arduous, it's sweaty.
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I'm still trying to do films about black women.
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I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.
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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.
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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.
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You never know how people are going to respond.
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I consider myself conscious of how we're treated, and sometimes I can be a feminist.
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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.
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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.
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I never went in thinking, "You're an African-American woman, so you're never going to win." I was just in career doing beauty pageants for the experience, and to show my brains and talent and help break stereotypes. It wasn't like, "Oh, I'll become a star. I'm beautiful." I never thought I was pretty. I couldn't even put on eyelashes or makeup. 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.
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Me and my sisters were taught that if our eyes worked and our legs worked, we were beautiful. We had so many kids in our family that if we all got in front of the mirror and were ashamed of browns and golds and yellows and whites, and we believed what society told us - that the darker people were less attractive and the lighter ones were prettier - we would have had sibling murders. My family, being half-rural and half-military, just came from a different place.
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Sometimes I'm angry, sometimes I'm not angry.
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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.
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Our culture is revered and it inspires people all around the globe.
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