Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Pam Grier
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 26
Actor
Actress
Aikidoka
Film Actor
Karateka
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Winston-Salem
North Carolina
Pamela Suzette Grier
Childhood
Issues
Beauty
Pageant
Winning
Trauma
Mother
Helped
Wanted
Improve
Self
Possibly
Really
Image
More quotes by Pam Grier
I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist.
Pam Grier
But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.
Pam Grier
I'm not a total feminist, but I believe in rights for females.
Pam Grier
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
Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.
Pam Grier
My grandfather was the first feminist in my life. He taught me if a woman can do something, a man will respect her.
Pam Grier
When you are an actor, you bring a tool in your craft but you are not that person.
Pam Grier
I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.
Pam Grier
My family was very, very receptive to all all races, religions.
Pam Grier
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.
Pam Grier
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.
Pam Grier
The African-American community is not monolithic. It's liberal and conservative.
Pam Grier
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
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
Struggle and survival, losing and winning, doesn't matter. It's entering the race that counts. You enter, you can win, you can lose .... but it's all about entering the race.
Pam Grier
Coming from the '50s, things were very violent.
Pam Grier
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
Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.
Pam Grier
Sex, action, special effects, and violence sell.
Pam Grier
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
