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Out of necessity comes genius.

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
Necessity
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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Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.
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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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When you are an actor, you bring a tool in your craft but you are not that person.
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If you're stupid and you're arrogant, you're going to get hurt.
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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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But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.
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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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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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I like to do all kinds of films.
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I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.
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I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.
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The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.
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You can get hurt at any time.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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The African-American community is not monolithic. It's liberal and conservative.
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My family was very, very receptive to all all races, religions.
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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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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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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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