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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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Coming from the '50s, things were very violent.
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You can get hurt at any time.
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I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.
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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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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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Struggle and survival, losing and winning, doesn't matter. It's entering the race that counts. You enter, you can win, you can lose .... but it's all about entering the race.
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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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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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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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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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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'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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If you're stupid and you're arrogant, you're going to get hurt.
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Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.
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You never know how people are going to respond.
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I felt beauty was a magnet for abuse, and I had suffered greatly for it.
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Sometimes I'm a little Republican, sometimes I'm a little Democrat.
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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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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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