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When you are an actor, you bring a tool in your craft but you are not that person.

Pam Grier

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Pam Grier
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 26
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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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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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Out of necessity comes genius.
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I'm not a total feminist, but I believe in rights for females.
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You can get hurt at any time.
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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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Sometimes I'm a little Republican, sometimes I'm a little Democrat.
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You never know how people are going to respond.
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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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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 family was very, very receptive to all all races, religions.
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When you come from an environment that's military, and they don't stress that topic of aesthetics or beauty pageants and makeup, there are a lot of things you just don't have that city girls have. Or the country girl who goes to movies and dreams of going to Hollywood as an actress.
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Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.
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