Pam Grier
When you are an actor, you bring a tool in your craft but you are not that person.Collection: Tools
I want to direct and work with the youngins and the fabulous actors of today.Collection: Actors
I think people will have great conversations about religions, women's sexuality, gender issues and gay issues.Collection: Gay
I'm just going to try to do the best work at whatever I'm going to be, and I don't think I'm going to be an actress.Collection: Thinking
At the beginning, my ambition was never to break down doors. It was just to earn tuition for myself and work in an industry where women hadn't been allowed or invited. That's all I wanted to do, not thinking that I would make waves, change minds, excite people, incite people, turn on people, repulse people.Collection: Ambition
I never thought I was pretty. I couldn't even put on eyelashes or makeup.Collection: Makeup
Anything involving the camera, you're passionate about. Because there's no movies without it.Collection: Cameras
I don't want to be an actress, because I think that they have to be really pretty, and I'm not.Collection: Thinking
I'm in film school, so I really have to sock away my money for school, tuition, and so on, and I really don't have time.Collection: School
Coming from the '50s, things were very violent. We were still being lynched. If I drove down through the South with my mother, I might not make it through one state without being bullied or harassed. I feel like unless you've been black for a week, you don't know.Collection: Mother
Coming from the '50s, things were very violent.Collection: Violent
We have to have films about action and violence and special effects. That's the sad part, but you know what? It's not me doing it.Collection: Special
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.Collection: Husband
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.Collection: Character
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.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Men
I consider myself conscious of how women are treated, and sometimes I can be a feminist. Sometimes I'm a little Republican, sometimes I'm a little Democrat. Sometimes I'm angry, sometimes I'm not angry. I'm not a total feminist, but I believe in rights for females. I believe that if we have to pay 100 percent for our college tuition, and then we get into the workplace and we're only given 70 percent of our counterparts' salaries, then we shouldn't have to pay but 70 percent of our college tuition. Maybe that'll stop the bullshit.Collection: Believe
I was a child of the women's movement. Everything I had learned was from my mother and my grandmother, who both had a very pioneering spirit. They had to, because they had to change flat tires and paint the house - because, you know, the men didn't come home from the war or whatever else, so women had to do these things.Collection: Mother
I tell young actresses today who are looking to get into films, "First of all, you are marginalized by the color of your skin." I tell actresses, "If you're too tall, if you're too fat, you're not going to work. I don't care how talented you are." It's a business, and sex sells. Sex, action, special effects, and violence sell. Yes, you can have art films about the triumph of the human spirit and all of that, but you'll have it done with a big-budget icon with a $20 million salary.Collection: Art
I believe that if we have to pay 100 percent for our college tuition, and then we get into the workplace, and we're only given 70 percent of our counterparts' salaries, then we shouldn't have to pay but 70 percent of our college tuition. Maybe that'll stop the bullshit.Collection: Believe
I'm not a total feminist, but I believe in rights for females.Collection: Believe
I'm still trying to do films about black women.Collection: Black
When you come from an environment that's military, and they don't stress that topic of aesthetics or beauty pageants and makeup, there are a lot of things you just don't have that city girls have. Or the country girl who goes to movies and dreams of going to Hollywood as an actress.Collection: Girl
I don't think I can break down any doors, but I'm thinking, "Maybe I can be a cameraman, because I love the cameras." And the cameraman would show me how to thread the film, how to repair it, the lenses. That's when you become, like, goony goo-goo about it. You breathe and eat camera, and all of a sudden, you don't want anything else in the world. You finally know, "This is my calling." When you're passionate about something, it doesn't become work. It's art and it's fun. It's arduous, it's sweaty.Collection: Art
It's the best honor when someone wants to use as their professional title the name of a character that you portrayed.Collection: Character
You can get hurt at any time.Collection: Hurt
I ask you, how would you like your mom, your wife, your daughter to spend $100,000 to go to Harvard or some state school, and go out into the workplace, and you know she's great, and men are getting paid $200 per week more than her? Would that piss you off? What if you lost your job and you stay home crippled while she goes out, and she thinks she's going to get a good job, but someone male with the same level of experience and the same level of education gets paid more than her? You're going to get pissed. Until you walk a mile in someone else's shoes, I don't want to hear it.Collection: Mom
The African-American community is not monolithic. It's liberal and conservative.Collection: Community
I was kind of a bouncy kid. I used to roller-skate into the sides of cars.Collection: Kids
Sex, action, special effects, and violence sell.Collection: Sex
As I get older, it's a time to enjoy life.Collection: Enjoy Life
I consider myself conscious of how we're treated, and sometimes I can be a feminist.Collection: Feminist
I tell actresses, "If you're too tall, if you're too fat, you're not going to work. I don't care how talented you are." It's a business, and sex sells.Collection: Sex
Sometimes I'm a little Republican, sometimes I'm a little Democrat.Collection: Littles
You never know how people are going to respond.Collection: People
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.Collection: Mother
Thats what I crave that diversity.Collection: Diversity