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I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist.

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
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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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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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Out of necessity comes genius.
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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 not a total feminist, but I believe in rights for females.
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You never know how people are going to respond.
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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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The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.
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Struggle and survival, losing and winning, doesn't matter. It's entering the race that counts. You enter, you can win, you can lose .... but it's all about entering the race.
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Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.
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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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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 family was very, very receptive to all all races, religions.
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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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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 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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The African-American community is not monolithic. It's liberal and conservative.
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Sex, action, special effects, and violence sell.
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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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Sometimes I'm a little Republican, sometimes I'm a little Democrat.
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