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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 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 serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.
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I like to do all kinds of films.
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Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you, they may not tip you, you don't know their names, they don't care about you, you don't care about them.
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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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I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.
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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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Sex, action, special effects, and violence sell.
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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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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 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 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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But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.
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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 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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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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