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I'm not a total feminist, but I believe in rights for females.

Pam Grier

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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
Feminist
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Rights
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Females

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I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.
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My family was very, very receptive to all all races, religions.
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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 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 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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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'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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When you are an actor, you bring a tool in your craft but you are not that person.
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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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If you're stupid and you're arrogant, you're going to get hurt.
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