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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 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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Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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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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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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I felt beauty was a magnet for abuse, and I had suffered greatly for it.
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I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.
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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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Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.
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Sex, action, special effects, and violence sell.
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If you're stupid and you're arrogant, you're going to get hurt.
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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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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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You never know how people are going to respond.
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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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I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.
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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'm not a total feminist, but I believe in rights for females.
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