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Sex, action, special effects, and violence sell.

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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
Action
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Sex
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Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.
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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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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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Sometimes I'm a little Republican, sometimes I'm a little Democrat.
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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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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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But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.
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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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Coming from the '50s, things were very violent.
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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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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 really hate to see abusive behavior being passed on from generation to generation to generation, when we have access to health and counseling.
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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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When you are an actor, you bring a tool in your craft but you are not that person.
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You never know how people are going to respond.
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The African-American community is not monolithic. It's liberal and conservative.
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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 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.
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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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Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.
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