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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
Actor
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Aikidoka
Film Actor
Karateka
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Winston-Salem
North Carolina
Pamela Suzette Grier
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As I get older, it's a time to enjoy life.
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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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I'm a big child at heart. I think it's important to stay that way and not lose the wonder of life.
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The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.
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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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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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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 like to do all kinds of films.
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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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I'm an Air force Brat and I've lived all over the world and this country and there were people in my community who were gay - nurses, hairdressers, designers - people who just had a different way about themselves.
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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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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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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 like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.
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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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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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