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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
Genius
Comes
Necessity

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And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.
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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 do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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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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My mother really wanted me to be in possibly a beauty pageant, not only for if I could win, but it helped improve my self-image because of trauma in my childhood and other issues.
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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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I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist.
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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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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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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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I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.
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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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Sometimes I'm a little Republican, sometimes I'm a little Democrat.
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The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.
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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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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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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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Sex, action, special effects, and violence sell.
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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 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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