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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.
Pam Grier
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Pam Grier
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 26
Actor
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Aikidoka
Film Actor
Karateka
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Winston-Salem
North Carolina
Pamela Suzette Grier
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Sex, action, special effects, and violence sell.
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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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You can get hurt at any time.
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My family was very, very receptive to all all races, religions.
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The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.
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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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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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But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.
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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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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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As I get older, it's a time to enjoy life.
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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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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 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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I like to do all kinds of films.
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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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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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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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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'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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