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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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I like to do all kinds of films.
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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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You never know how people are going to respond.
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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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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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Sex, action, special effects, and violence sell.
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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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Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.
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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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I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist.
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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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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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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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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'm a big child at heart. I think it's important to stay that way and not lose the wonder of life.
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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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The African-American community is not monolithic. It's liberal and conservative.
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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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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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