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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.

Pam Grier

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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 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.
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But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.
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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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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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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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Out of necessity comes genius.
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I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.
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Sometimes I'm a little Republican, sometimes I'm a little Democrat.
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If you're stupid and you're arrogant, you're going to get hurt.
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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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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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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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When you are an actor, you bring a tool in your craft but you are not that person.
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I felt beauty was a magnet for abuse, and I had suffered greatly for it.
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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 African-American community is not monolithic. It's liberal and conservative.
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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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