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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
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Winston-Salem
North Carolina
Pamela Suzette Grier
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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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But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.
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The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.
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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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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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Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.
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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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I really hate to see abusive behavior being passed on from generation to generation to generation, when we have access to health and counseling.
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I'm not a total feminist, but I believe in rights for females.
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I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.
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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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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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