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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.

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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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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I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.
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And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.
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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'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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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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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'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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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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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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Out of necessity comes genius.
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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 do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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Sometimes I'm a little Republican, sometimes I'm a little Democrat.
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The African-American community is not monolithic. It's liberal and conservative.
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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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