Pam Grier Quotes

• 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

  Tags in Minute

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

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  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Freedom

• 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.

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  Topics in Work

  Tags in Thank You, Character

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Black People

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Relationship

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

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  Topics in Beauty

• 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

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Movie

• 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.

  Pam Grier

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Character

• 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.

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  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Bible

• My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People

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

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  Topics in Family, Religion

• Me, s*xy? I’m just plain ol’ beans and rice.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Plain

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

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  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Always

• 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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  Topics in Future

  Tags in Forget

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

  Pam Grier

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Beautiful

• 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.

  Pam Grier

  Topics in Country

  Tags in People

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

  Pam Grier

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Thought

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

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  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Caring

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

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  Topics in Love, Movies

  Tags in People

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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