Top 96 Grier Quotes
#1. There's people saying that 'Jackie Brown' was a blaxploitation movie, when there's nothing at all blaxploitation about it other than Pam Grier being in it.
Michael Jai White
#2. Run from me, Grier Hadley, and I'll follow. I'll track you down and find you.
Sophie Jordan
#3. I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw 'The Negro' get one over on 'The Man.'
Samuel L. Jackson
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. I started acting at the University of Michigan in my sophomore year.
David Alan Grier
#7. The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.
Pam Grier
#8. I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.
Pam Grier
#9. I accept you, and you get the same respect from me whether you are black, white, gay straight, Asian, bisexual, Australian, tall, fat, whatever it is. We are all people, and I look at the people of the world the same way, as my brothers and sisters.
Nash Grier
#10. 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.
Pam Grier
#11. 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
#15. I couldn't wait to be, you know, a Black Panther. Of course they wouldn't let me join.
David Alan Grier
#16. I am really blessed and very grateful for it.
Pam Grier
#17. 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
#18. I thought I would be Sheena of the Jungle as a little girl.
Pam Grier
#19. Designing a collection with Aeropostale was completely surreal.
Nash Grier
#20. Some day I want to play a grandmother. And a foxy one at that!
Pam Grier
#21. Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.
Pam Grier
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. If, by chance, you find that you are losing hope, tap back into those who inspire you.
Mehgan Heaney-Grier
#25. 'Dancing With the Stars' is so Middle America, and people take it so seriously.
David Alan Grier
#26. When people say 'that's risky,' or when the odds are not in my favor, I'm more motivated than ever.
Nash Grier
#27. I wanted something where I could have the clearest and most unfiltered artistic and creative voice.
David Alan Grier
#28. Be talented enough to make it and stupid enough to keep trying.
David Alan Grier
#29. When I was a kid, I wanted to walk with my dad's limp - my dad was my hero - but that infuriated him, and he would make me walk back and forth in the living room until I walked without it.
David Alan Grier
#31. Towards the end of summer 2013, when school ended, I decided to re-download all of my social media channels and make videos again. The next day, I woke up and had 9,000 followers. I did the same thing the next day and woke up with 54,000 followers.
Nash Grier
#32. 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
#33. I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.
Pam Grier
#34. I really do not care if it is a B-movie or not.
Pam Grier
#35. 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
#36. 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
#38. Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.
Pam Grier
#39. Man becomes virtually an automaton in the loss of his individuality and responsibility. He is the harp of a thousand strings played upon by a divine hand, but not a man!
John Grier Hibben
#40. I felt beauty was a magnet for abuse, and I had suffered greatly for it.
Pam Grier
#41. I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist.
Pam Grier
#42. I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.
Pam Grier
#44. I like to do all kinds of films.
Pam Grier
#45. I cannot bear to think that our young men are merely living four years in a country club and spending their lives wholly in a spirit of calculation and snobbishness.
John Grier Hibben
#46. When you are an actor, you bring a tool in your craft but you are not that person.
Pam Grier
#47. My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.
Pam Grier
#48. Don't let anyone try to tell you who you are. Define yourself.
David Alan Grier
#49. Well who's black and what is a black person?
Pam Grier
#50. My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions.
Pam Grier
#51. I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.
Pam Grier
#52. I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman.
David Alan Grier
#53. This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
Pam Grier
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. I've tried actively to define myself and redefine myself, and not be pigeonholed.
David Alan Grier
#58. My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call 'Little House on the Prairie' tales, but they were tales of segregated and racist America growing up in Alabama and Mississippi, where she came from.
David Alan Grier
#61. I never wanted to lose out on an acting job and wonder if I hadn't been trained enough.
David Alan Grier
#62. You can play professional lacrosse, but they make less than a teacher's salary now. I always thought about that. And it's a very difficult career, a short career, as a pro athlete.
Nash Grier
#63. I grew up in a home and in a world in which you can do anything. We were all expected to go to college. My father was a doctor.
David Alan Grier
#64. There are just certain realities about our world and I just happen to be creative within it.
Pam Grier
#65. Thats what I crave that diversity.
Pam Grier
#66. 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
#67. As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.
Nash Grier
#68. 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
#69. I want to see gay couples stuck with their significant other at Home Depot with that far away look in their eye, get me out of here.
David Alan Grier
#70. I love entertaining people, and I want to pursue it.
Nash Grier
#71. Today, many people are engaging in same sex relationships and saying they are not gay.
Pam Grier
#72. Every little kid has always wanted to be a race car driver. This gets some of that out.
David Alan Grier
#73. Many of my early Vines and collaborations were with gay people.
Nash Grier
#74. 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
#75. Think. Learn. Act. The more you know, the better and more educated choices you have the opportunity to make.
Mehgan Heaney-Grier
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. What is reality? Is it not merely a term for the philosopher to conjure with, behind which he may craftily conceal his ignorance?
John Grier Hibben
#80. I am passionate about my family, adventure, good wine, nature and the outdoors, sharks, the ocean, and working hard to preserve it all for future generations.
Mehgan Heaney-Grier
#81. But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.
Pam Grier
#82. To be known by the public, honestly. People come up and tell them how good I make them feel.
David Alan Grier
#83. I try to make my bed every day for mental health. Coming home to an unmade bed or a room with clothes all over will depress me.
David Alan Grier
#84. You can be on top of everything, and the next minute, you're going to be on the bottom.
Pam Grier
#85. I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.
David Alan Grier
#86. America is grappling with cultural diversity, and I just want to put a show on that represents the world in which I live.
David Alan Grier
#87. I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
Pam Grier
#88. I like being the center of attention. I want to be in the limelight, basically.
Nash Grier
#89. Be happy. Don't make a Vine about, like, something not that happy.
Nash Grier
#90. It's always fun to put on bell bottoms and have your butt hanging out and hip huggers.
Pam Grier
#91. The undersea world surrounding Green Island looks just like a water fairyland.
Mehgan Heaney-Grier
#92. I'm not 'Will's brother' anymore. Will is my brother. I'm paving the way for all middle children out there.
Nash Grier
#93. Some days I think I look kind of cute, but other days I try to avoid the mirror.
David Alan Grier
#94. I have a talent for missing the best and greatest parties.
David Alan Grier
#96. I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.
Pam Grier
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