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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.
Pam Grier
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Pam Grier
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 26
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Aikidoka
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Karateka
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Winston-Salem
North Carolina
Pamela Suzette Grier
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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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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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Coming from the '50s, things were very violent.
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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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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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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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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 don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist.
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As I get older, it's a time to enjoy life.
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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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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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Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.
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Sex, action, special effects, and violence sell.
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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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You can get hurt at any time.
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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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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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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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