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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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Winston-Salem
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Pamela Suzette Grier
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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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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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If you're stupid and you're arrogant, you're going to get hurt.
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I like to do all kinds of films.
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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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The African-American community is not monolithic. It's liberal and conservative.
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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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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'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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The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.
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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 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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I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist.
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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 love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different 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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Out of necessity comes genius.
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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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