Pam Grier Quotes
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.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I think violence can never be justified.
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I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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I do love pasta. It gets me into trouble. If I could give up pasta and bread, I'd look like Cate Blanchett.
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To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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I live with my mum and my nan. I think I will leave eventually, but not at the moment when they look after me so well. If you came to my house, they'd make you eat something.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
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I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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I think that sometimes you can be an example of what to do and what not to do, and I think most of the time I'm an example of what not to do.
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
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Yeah, I like clothes, but I hardly ever go shopping. Hardly ever!
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I don't go to clubs and throw money and pop bottles. That's not my thing, no disrespect.
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"Isn't it fun getting older?" is really a terrible fallacy. That's like saying I prefer driving an old car with a flat tire.
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When Nixon died, on my radio show I started doing sketches with three basic conceits: One, there's a place called Heaven. Two, Nixon got in. And three, he's still taping.
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The countries of the American continent and the adjacent islands are for the United States the natural marts of supply and demand.
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My favorite thing is when I work with anybody - crew, hair, makeup - I always love to ask who's the coolest person they've worked with in terms of who's been the kindest and most down to earth. A lot of people have said Meryl Streep.
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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.
