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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
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Karateka
Stage Actor
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Winston-Salem
North Carolina
Pamela Suzette Grier
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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.
Pam Grier
I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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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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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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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 love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.
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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.
Pam Grier
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 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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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.
Pam Grier
The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.
Pam Grier
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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My grandfather was the first feminist in my life. He taught me if a woman can do something, a man will respect her.
Pam Grier
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.
Pam Grier
My family was very, very receptive to all all races, religions.
Pam Grier
Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.
Pam Grier
Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.
Pam Grier
I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.
Pam Grier
