Top 30 Pam Grier Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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

2. “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

3. “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.”

— Pam Grier

4. “I really hate to see abusive behavior being passed on from generation to generation to generation, when we have access to health and counseling.”

— Pam Grier

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

— Pam Grier

6. “Thats what I crave that diversity.”

— Pam Grier

7. “My mother really wanted me to be in possibly a beauty pageant, not only for if I could win, but it helped improve my self-image because of trauma in my childhood and other issues.”

— Pam Grier

8. “Let’s start working towards wellness, a healing in our community, a healing in relationships, so male and female can finally sit down and understand that that young boy or young girl saw behavior exhibited by their parents that was negative and abusive and they’re going to pass it on.”

— Pam Grier

9. “I was able to be distant by portraying another person, another character, if you will, and I found myself not stuttering and not having anxiety attacks when I was portraying another soul, another being, and I found comfort in that. I think many actors do, playing someone other than themselves.”

— Pam Grier

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

— Pam Grier

11. “I wanted to be in film. I wanted to be a film student, possibly be a director or cinematographer, not an actor. That was my goal. I didn’t believe I had the physical beauty that I’d seen projected and advertised in movies, in theater. It just wasn’t for me.”

— Pam Grier

12. “My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.”

— Pam Grier

13. “But I just loved looking at the clothes of the ’70s.”

— Pam Grier

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

— Pam Grier

15. “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

16. “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

17. “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.”

— Pam Grier

18. “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

19. “I’ve never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don’t.”

— Pam Grier

20. “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.”

— Pam Grier

21. “I don’t know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.”

— Pam Grier

22. “I like to do all kinds of films.”

— Pam Grier

23. “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.”

— Pam Grier

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

— Pam Grier

25. “The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.”

— Pam Grier

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

— Pam Grier

27. “I don’t believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist.”

— Pam Grier

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

— Pam Grier

29. “I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.”

— Pam Grier

30. “Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it’s not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn’t then.”

— Pam Grier

31. “Women are allowed more freedoms and we’re fighting for more freedoms, we’re experiencing more freedoms won.”

— Pam Grier

32. “When you are an actor, you bring a tool in your craft but you are not that person.”

— Pam Grier

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

— Pam Grier