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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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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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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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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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When you are an actor, you bring a tool in your craft but you are not that person.
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Sex, action, special effects, and violence sell.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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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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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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If you're stupid and you're arrogant, you're going to get hurt.
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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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Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.
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But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.
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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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Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.
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I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.
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The African-American community is not monolithic. It's liberal and conservative.
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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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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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