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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'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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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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I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.
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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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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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The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.
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My family was very, very receptive to all all races, religions.
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I'm not a total feminist, but I believe in rights for females.
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Sometimes I'm a little Republican, sometimes I'm a little Democrat.
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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 wanted to be in film. I wanted to be a film student, possibly be a director or cinematographer, not an actor. That was my goal. I didn't believe I had the physical beauty that I'd seen projected and advertised in movies, in theater. It just wasn't for me.
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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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Coming from the '50s, things were very violent.
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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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Out of necessity comes genius.
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As I get older, it's a time to enjoy life.
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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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Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.
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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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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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