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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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Karateka
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Winston-Salem
North Carolina
Pamela Suzette Grier
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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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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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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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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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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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But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.
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I felt beauty was a magnet for abuse, and I had suffered greatly for it.
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You can get hurt at any time.
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Coming from the '50s, things were very violent.
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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 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 never know how people are going to respond.
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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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Sometimes I'm a little Republican, sometimes I'm a little Democrat.
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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.
Pam Grier
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 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
Sex, action, special effects, and violence sell.
Pam Grier
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.
Pam Grier
I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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