Pam Grier Quotes

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.

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

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.

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 am really blessed and very grateful for it.

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

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

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

I love science fiction.

I love the hip-hop nation.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.