Pam Grier Quotes

Sometimes people do get hurt

Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.

Everything we do in general, there's gonna be a percentage of risk. Me, making my entrance to the ring, there's actually a percentage of risk I'm going to trip and fall and hurt myself. Me, getting up on the apron, there's a percentage of risk.

Don't be careful. You could hurt yourself.

Everyone gets hurt, but I've probably had the most injuries.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.

When a gust of wind hits a broken bone, you feel it.

Every day is an opportunity to fall or hurt yourself.

Sometimes to realize you were well, someone must come along and hurt you.

If you fell down, you were dead.

Every man who gets in that ring has the ability to hurt you.

The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.

Hitchhiking, intrinsically, is sexual and dangerous. At the same time I never really felt scared. I was scared that nobody would pick me up and that I'd be waiting by the side of the road for a week.

You need to be more careful, or you could hurt yourself.

Everything is removed. You're actually doing something dangerous when you get in your car, when you're getting on an airplane, or having sex.

My flesh was burning where the skin was scraped off my knees, and I was afraid that I couldn't be alive anymore with so much pain, and at the same time I knew I was alive because it hurt. I was afraid that death would find its way into me through this open knee and I quickly covered my knee with my hands.

I bashed myself. I cut myself. I caught on fire. I fell: I had been myopically focused on peeling garlic, and hadn't noticed a bin of beef at my feet until I walked into it.

Even without wars, life is dangerous.

Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting.

Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

I don't know how I didn't kill any one of my sisters. For this one horror film we were making, I made my own harness for my sister. I wrapped her in all these ropes, but then also put a noose around her neck and hung her from a tree. Now I think, 'What if my harness didn't work?' I'm so lucky that nothing ever happened.

I looked at my shoulder and saw a javelin stuck in it. I was in shock.

I've been hurt quite a few times.

You're not going to live your life unscathed.