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I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.
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
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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 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 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'm not a total feminist, but I believe in rights for females.
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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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Sometimes I'm a little Republican, sometimes I'm a little Democrat.
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I'm in film school, so I really have to sock away my money for school, tuition, and so on, and I really don't have time.
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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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Out of necessity comes genius.
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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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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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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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Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.
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But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.
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I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.
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Coming from the '50s, things were very violent.
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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.
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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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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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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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