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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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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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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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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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Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.
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My family was very, very receptive to all all races, religions.
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I'm a big child at heart. I think it's important to stay that way and not lose the wonder of life.
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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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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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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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You never know how people are going to respond.
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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.
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You can get hurt at any time.
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I'm not a total feminist, but I believe in rights for females.
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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 felt beauty was a magnet for abuse, and I had suffered greatly for it.
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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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I like to do all kinds of films.
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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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I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.
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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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