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When you are an actor, you bring a tool in your craft but you are not that person.
Pam Grier
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Pam Grier
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 26
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Aikidoka
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Karateka
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Winston-Salem
North Carolina
Pamela Suzette Grier
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I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist.
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My family was very, very receptive to all all races, religions.
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Sometimes I'm a little Republican, sometimes I'm a little Democrat.
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You never know how people are going to respond.
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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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Out of necessity comes genius.
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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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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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I like to do all kinds of films.
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I felt beauty was a magnet for abuse, and I had suffered greatly for it.
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As I get older, it's a time to enjoy life.
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I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.
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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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The African-American community is not monolithic. It's liberal and conservative.
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But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.
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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. Or the country girl who goes to movies and dreams of going to Hollywood as an actress.
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Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then.
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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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If you're stupid and you're arrogant, you're going to get hurt.
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Sex, action, special effects, and violence sell.
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