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Sex, action, special effects, and violence sell.
Pam Grier
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Pam Grier
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 26
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Actress
Aikidoka
Film Actor
Karateka
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Winston-Salem
North Carolina
Pamela Suzette Grier
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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.
Pam Grier
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.
Pam Grier
Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.
Pam Grier
I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
Pam Grier
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
As I get older, it's a time to enjoy life.
Pam Grier
It's the best honor when someone wants to use as their professional title the name of a character that you portrayed.
Pam Grier
My family was very, very receptive to all all races, religions.
Pam Grier
I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist.
Pam Grier
Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.
Pam Grier
I'm not a total feminist, but I believe in rights for females.
Pam Grier
Coming from the '50s, things were very violent.
Pam Grier
I felt beauty was a magnet for abuse, and I had suffered greatly for it.
Pam Grier
I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.
Pam Grier
The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.
Pam Grier
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.
Pam Grier
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.
Pam Grier
Sometimes I'm a little Republican, sometimes I'm a little Democrat.
Pam Grier
I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.
Pam Grier
When you are an actor, you bring a tool in your craft but you are not that person.
Pam Grier
