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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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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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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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Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.
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You can get hurt at any time.
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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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My family was very, very receptive to all all races, religions.
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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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The African-American community is not monolithic. It's liberal and conservative.
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If you're stupid and you're arrogant, you're going to get hurt.
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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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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.
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Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.
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But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.
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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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Sometimes I'm a little Republican, sometimes I'm a little Democrat.
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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 like to do all kinds of films.
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I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.
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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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