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I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist.

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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
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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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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.
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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.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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Sometimes I'm a little Republican, sometimes I'm a little Democrat.
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When you are an actor, you bring a tool in your craft but you are not that person.
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As I get older, it's a time to enjoy life.
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But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.
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If you're stupid and you're arrogant, you're going to get hurt.
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I like to do all kinds of films.
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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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Coming from the '50s, things were very violent.
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Sex, action, special effects, and violence sell.
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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.
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The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.
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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.
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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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I really hate to see abusive behavior being passed on from generation to generation to generation, when we have access to health and counseling.
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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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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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