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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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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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But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.
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Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.
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You never know how people are going to respond.
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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 will not be on this planet. I may come back in another form, and you know, I'll come back as a white man.
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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 do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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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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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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Coming from the '50s, things were very violent.
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Women were victims. Their husbands could beat them up when they wanted to. They couldn't work. They could be maimed and killed by their husbands.
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I felt beauty was a magnet for abuse, and I had suffered greatly for it.
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I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.
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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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As I get older, it's a time to enjoy life.
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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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When you are an actor, you bring a tool in your craft but you are not that person.
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