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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.

Pam Grier

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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
Comeback
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Four
Call
Every
Years

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It's the best honor when someone wants to use as their professional title the name of a character that you portrayed.
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I'm a big child at heart. I think it's important to stay that way and not lose the wonder of life.
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My family was very, very receptive to all all races, religions.
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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.
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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.
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You can get hurt at any time.
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If you're stupid and you're arrogant, you're going to get hurt.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You never know how people are going to respond.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.
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The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.
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My grandfather was the first feminist in my life. He taught me if a woman can do something, a man will respect her.
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Sex, action, special effects, and violence sell.
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I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.
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