Quotes from Pam Grier

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

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

I like to do all kinds of films.

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

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

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.

I'm still trying to do films about black women.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.

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 love science fiction.