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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
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Effects
Violence
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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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You can get hurt at any time.
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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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Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.
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As I get older, it's a time to enjoy life.
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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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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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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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When you are an actor, you bring a tool in your craft but you are not that person.
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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.
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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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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.
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Coming from the '50s, things were very violent.
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The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.
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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'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 like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.
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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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