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I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.
Pam Grier
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Pam Grier
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 26
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Winston-Salem
North Carolina
Pamela Suzette Grier
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I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.
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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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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.
Pam Grier
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.
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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.
Pam Grier
The African-American community is not monolithic. It's liberal and conservative.
Pam Grier
I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.
Pam Grier
You can get hurt at any time.
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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.
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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.
Pam Grier
Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you, they may not tip you, you don't know their names, they don't care about you, you don't care about them.
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When you are an actor, you bring a tool in your craft but you are not that person.
Pam Grier
As I get older, it's a time to enjoy life.
Pam Grier
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.
Pam Grier
Out of necessity comes genius.
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You never know how people are going to respond.
Pam Grier
Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.
Pam Grier
I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist.
Pam Grier
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.
Pam Grier
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.
Pam Grier
