Pam Grier

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

— Pam Grier

I like to do all kinds of films.

— Pam Grier

You never know how people are going to respond.

— Pam Grier

Sometimes I'm angry, sometimes I'm not angry.

— Pam Grier

You can get hurt at any time.

— Pam Grier

Thats what I crave that diversity.

— Pam Grier

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

— Pam Grier

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

— Pam Grier

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

— Pam Grier

I'm a big child at heart. I think it's important to stay that way and not lose the wonder of life.

— Pam Grier

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

— Pam Grier

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

— Pam Grier

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

— Pam Grier

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

— Pam Grier

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

— Pam Grier

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

— Pam Grier

Struggle and survival, losing and winning, doesn't matter. It's entering the race that counts. You enter, you can win, you can lose…

— Pam Grier

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…

— Pam Grier

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

— Pam Grier

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…

— Pam Grier

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

— Pam Grier

Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and…

— Pam Grier

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

— Pam Grier

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

— Pam Grier

I was able to be distant by portraying another person, another character, if you will, and I found myself not stuttering and…

— Pam Grier

I believe that if we have to pay 100 percent for our college tuition, and then we get into the workplace, and…

— Pam Grier

Let's start working towards wellness, a healing in our community, a healing in relationships, so male and female can finally sit down…

— Pam Grier

When you come from an environment that's military, and they don't stress that topic of aesthetics or beauty pageants and makeup, there…

— Pam Grier

I'm an Air force Brat and I've lived all over the world and this country and there were people in my community…

— Pam Grier

I wanted to be in film. I wanted to be a film student, possibly be a director or cinematographer, not an actor.…

— Pam Grier

At the beginning, my ambition was never to break down doors. It was just to earn tuition for myself and work in…

— Pam Grier

Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word…

— Pam Grier

Me and my sisters were taught that if our eyes worked and our legs worked, we were beautiful. We had so many…

— Pam Grier

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…

— Pam Grier

I ask you, how would you like your mom, your wife, your daughter to spend $100,000 to go to Harvard or some…

— Pam Grier

I tell young actresses today who are looking to get into films, "First of all, you are marginalized by the color of…

— Pam Grier

Yes, you can have art films about the triumph of the human spirit and all of that, but you'll have it done…

— Pam Grier

I don't think I can break down any doors, but I'm thinking, "Maybe I can be a cameraman, because I love the…

— Pam Grier

I consider myself conscious of how women are treated, and sometimes I can be a feminist. Sometimes I'm a little Republican, sometimes…

— Pam Grier

I am really blessed and very grateful for it.

— Pam Grier