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I felt beauty was a magnet for abuse, and I had suffered greatly for it.
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
Magnet
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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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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 family was very, very receptive to all all races, religions.
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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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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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But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.
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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'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've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.
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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 don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist.
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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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Let's start working towards wellness, a healing in our community, a healing in relationships, so male and female can finally sit down and understand that that young boy or young girl saw behavior exhibited by their parents that was negative and abusive and they're going to pass it on.
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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.
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You never know how people are going to respond.
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Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.
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As I get older, it's a time to enjoy life.
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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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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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