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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.

Pam Grier

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Pam Grier
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 26
Actor
Actress
Aikidoka
Film Actor
Karateka
Stage Actor
Television Actor
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.
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When you are an actor, you bring a tool in your craft but you are not that person.
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Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you, they may not tip you, you don't know their names, they don't care about you, you don't care about them.
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I felt beauty was a magnet for abuse, and I had suffered greatly for it.
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Out of necessity comes genius.
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But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.
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The African-American community is not monolithic. It's liberal and conservative.
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I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.
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Sometimes I'm a little Republican, sometimes I'm a little Democrat.
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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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I'm not a total feminist, but I believe in rights for females.
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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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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 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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Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.
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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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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 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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Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.
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