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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

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Pam Grier
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 26
Actor
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Aikidoka
Film Actor
Karateka
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Winston-Salem
North Carolina
Pamela Suzette Grier
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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 like to do all kinds of films.
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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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But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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Struggle and survival, losing and winning, doesn't matter. It's entering the race that counts. You enter, you can win, you can lose .... but it's all about entering the race.
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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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Coming from the '50s, things were very violent.
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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 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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My family was very, very receptive to all all races, religions.
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I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.
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Sometimes I'm a little Republican, sometimes I'm a little Democrat.
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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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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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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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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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Out of necessity comes genius.
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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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Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.
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