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I never went in thinking, "You're an African-American woman, so you're never going to win." I was just in career doing beauty pageants for the experience, and to show my brains and talent and help break stereotypes. It wasn't like, "Oh, I'll become a star. I'm beautiful." I never thought I was pretty. I couldn't even put on eyelashes or makeup. When you come from an environment that's military, and they don't stress that topic of aesthetics or beauty pageants and makeup, there are a lot of things you just don't have that city girls have.

Pam Grier's Popular Quotes

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 c…

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

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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 a…

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

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

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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 th…

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