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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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Aikidoka
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Karateka
Stage Actor
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Winston-Salem
North Carolina
Pamela Suzette Grier
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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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When you are an actor, you bring a tool in your craft but you are not that person.
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I felt beauty was a magnet for abuse, and I had suffered greatly for it.
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You never know how people are going to respond.
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I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.
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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 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 don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist.
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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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Out of necessity comes genius.
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As I get older, it's a time to enjoy life.
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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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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'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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I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.
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I like to do all kinds of films.
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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.
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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Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.
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