Pam Grier Quotes - Page 3

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• My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions.

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  Race, My Family, Receptive

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• My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.

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  People, Colorado, Homesteading

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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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  Tools, Actors, Crafts

  "Actress Pam Grier". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 13, 2010.

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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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  Appearance, Grew Up, Emphasis

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• I want to direct and work with the youngins and the fabulous actors of today.

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  Actors, Want, Today

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I think people will have great conversations about religions, women's sexuality, gender issues and gay issues.

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  Gay, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.ebony.com

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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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  Thinking, Trying, Actresses

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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  Ambition, Thinking, Doors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I never thought I was pretty. I couldn't even put on eyelashes or makeup.

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  Makeup, Eyelashes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Anything involving the camera, you're passionate about. Because there's no movies without it.

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  Cameras, Passionate, Involving

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't want to be an actress, because I think that they have to be really pretty, and I'm not.

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  Thinking, Want, Actresses

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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  School, Tuition, Film

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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  Mother, Black, Might

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Coming from the '50s, things were very violent.

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  Violent

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We have to have films about action and violence and special effects. That's the sad part, but you know what? It's not me doing it.

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  Special, Violence, Action

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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  Husband, Victim, Beats

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Well, thank you and that's for them, but for me, I want to look back at a body of work where when you do the research and you explore the psyche of a character, where she's been, where she is and where she's going.

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  Thank You, Character, Looks

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• I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.

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  Week, Know How, Knows

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• Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.

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  Gay, Issues, Debate

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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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  Names, People, Care

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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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  Character, Thinking, Anxiety

  "Actress Pam Grier". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 13, 2010.

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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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  Believe, Goal, Directors

  "Actress Pam Grier". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 13, 2010.

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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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  Country, Gay, Air

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• But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.

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  Clothes

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• I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.

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  Years, Four, Four Years

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