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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
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Aikidoka
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Karateka
Stage Actor
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Winston-Salem
North Carolina
Pamela Suzette Grier
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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 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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You can get hurt at any time.
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The African-American community is not monolithic. It's liberal and conservative.
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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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Let's start working towards wellness, a healing in our community, a healing in relationships, so male and female can finally sit down and understand that that young boy or young girl saw behavior exhibited by their parents that was negative and abusive and they're going to pass it on.
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I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.
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Out of necessity comes genius.
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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 like to do all kinds of films.
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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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Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then.
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I'm not a total feminist, but I believe in rights for females.
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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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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 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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If you're stupid and you're arrogant, you're going to get hurt.
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I felt beauty was a magnet for abuse, and I had suffered greatly for it.
Pam Grier
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.
Pam Grier
