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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
Actor
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Aikidoka
Film Actor
Karateka
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Winston-Salem
North Carolina
Pamela Suzette Grier
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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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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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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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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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Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.
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My family was very, very receptive to all all races, religions.
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I'm not a total feminist, but I believe in rights for females.
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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 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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Sex, action, special effects, and violence sell.
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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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I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.
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You can get hurt at any time.
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I like to do all kinds of films.
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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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I felt beauty was a magnet for abuse, and I had suffered greatly for it.
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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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Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.
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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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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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