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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.
Octavia Spencer
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Octavia Spencer
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: May 25
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Montgomery
Alabama
Octavia Lenora Spencer
Octavia L. Spencer
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If you go through life and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.
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I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will.
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I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.
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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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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'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes.
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I want to see more women behind the scenes.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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People who are overweight face discrimination. African-Americans face discrimination. Women face discrimination and sexism. So I don't have the luxury of not being tolerant of anyone.
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You have to create your own path and I'm up to the challenge.
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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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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.
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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 have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.
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I can only be the best version of myself and understand that the only way that we as a people can heal is to understand that the next person's journey may not be your own, but it doesn't mean that you have to marginalize them in any way.
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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 gotta go home and feed my eels. They're not electric, but I have a plan.
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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 don't ever want to be the type of person to tell you what to think or what to believe. Whatever stage in your life that you are in, I want you to organically reach whatever conclusions that you possibly reach.
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Even in my music, I am always searching for big, universal things - ways that you can sort of reach outside the norm of what you are doing.
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