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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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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'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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The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.
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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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Sometimes I'm a little Republican, sometimes I'm a little Democrat.
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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 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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But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.
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Sex, action, special effects, and violence sell.
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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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Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.
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I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.
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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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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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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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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 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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The African-American community is not monolithic. It's liberal and conservative.
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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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