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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

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Pam Grier
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 26
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Aikidoka
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Karateka
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Winston-Salem
North Carolina
Pamela Suzette Grier
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I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.
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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'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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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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My grandfather was the first feminist in my life. He taught me if a woman can do something, a man will respect her.
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If you're stupid and you're arrogant, you're going to get hurt.
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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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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 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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The African-American community is not monolithic. It's liberal and conservative.
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You never know how people are going to respond.
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I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.
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My mother really wanted me to be in possibly a beauty pageant, not only for if I could win, but it helped improve my self-image because of trauma in my childhood and other issues.
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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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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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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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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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Coming from the '50s, things were very violent.
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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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