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The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.
Octavia Spencer
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Octavia Spencer
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: May 25
Actor
Actress
Film Actor
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Montgomery
Alabama
Octavia Lenora Spencer
Octavia L. Spencer
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I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor.' And she said, 'Maybe not that.'
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I do believe that everyone has something to contribute.
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I want to find things that challenge me.
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I look for roles that resonate with me these days. While I love putting out just fabulous entertainment, I think now as artists, especially with so much uncertainty going on in the world, you want to be a part of things that offer or promote healing in some way and perhaps a little introspection once you leave.
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I just know that the one thing that we all have in common is challenges. No one lives a challenge free life.
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I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.
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I'm glad that I get to take my final walk as the princess of 2012. ...there's nothing wrong with winning an Oscar!
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I don't think that moms, with all that's going on in our society today, would want to put their kids in front of something that will be disheartening rather than uplifting.
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I didn't realize that diets don't work, and I did not want to diet. I didn't want to do anything that required dieting.
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The fact that women are very young in obtaining their civil rights and African-Americans are young in obtaining their civil rights, I think it's about time that we extend that to all Americans, whether straight, gay, purple, green, black, brown.
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I hate to tell people what they should think 'cause I really have an aversion when people tell me what to think.
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I want to see more women as producers.
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Where I'm from, you learned about God before you learned to read and write. Our faith is what grounds us.
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The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.
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I really believe things happen as they're supposed to and in the time that they're supposed to.
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I was starstruck and sweat a lot when I met Oprah Winfrey and tried to hug her. Because when you think you know people when you see them from your couch.
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I'm starstruck everyday. The day I'm not starstruck, I'll have to retire.
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I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes.
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You never write a speech in advance because if you don't get to use it, you'll be heartbroken.
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I like a person who knows how to say something dark at a very dark moment. The darker the moment and the darker the comic, the better. Something that is so wrong on all levels.
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