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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
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I felt beauty was a magnet for abuse, and I had suffered greatly for it.
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I'm not a total feminist, but I believe in rights for females.
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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 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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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.
Pam Grier
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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You can get hurt at any time.
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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.
Pam Grier
When you are an actor, you bring a tool in your craft but you are not that person.
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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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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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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.
Pam Grier
But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.
Pam Grier
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.
Pam Grier
The African-American community is not monolithic. It's liberal and conservative.
Pam Grier
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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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.
Pam Grier
I like to do all kinds of films.
Pam Grier
I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.
Pam Grier
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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