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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

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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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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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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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My family was very, very receptive to all all races, religions.
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Coming from the '50s, things were very violent.
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Sex, action, special effects, and violence sell.
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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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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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Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then.
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I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.
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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 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 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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