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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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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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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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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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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'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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Sex, action, special effects, and violence sell.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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The African-American community is not monolithic. It's liberal and conservative.
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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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I felt beauty was a magnet for abuse, and I had suffered greatly for it.
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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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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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Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.
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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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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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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 like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.
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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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