Pam Grier Quotes

• 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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• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Character

• 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.

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• It’s always fun to put on bell bottoms and have your butt hanging out and hip huggers.

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  Tags in Always

• 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.

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• My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.

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• Well who’s black and what is a black person?

  Pam Grier

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Black People

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

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  Topics in Family, Religion

• There are just certain realities about our world and I just happen to be creative within it.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, Creative

• Today, many people are engaging in same s*x relationships and saying they are not gay.

  Pam Grier

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Relationship

• This whole beauty thing is something I’ve never comprehended.

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  Topics in Beauty

• The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Movie

• 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.

  Pam Grier

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Thank You, Character

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

  Pam Grier

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Freedom

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

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Pam Grier (35)

Birth:	26th May, 1949
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress

About

Pam Grier became famous in the early 1970s after starring in a string of moderately successful women in prison and blaxploitation films like The Big Bird Cage, Coffy, Foxy Brown and Sheba Baby. Her career was revitalized in 1997 after her appearance in Quentin Tarantino's film Jackie Brown, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. She has also been nominated for a SAG Award as well as a Satellite Award for her performance in Jackie Brown. Grier is also known for her work on television, for 6 seasons she portrayed Kate 'Kit' Porter on the television series The L Word.

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