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I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.

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Octavia Spencer
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: May 25
Actor
Actress
Film Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Montgomery
Alabama
Octavia Lenora Spencer
Octavia L. Spencer
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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'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes.
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It's very seldom that we see the good of the South. There is a perception that Southerners are racists and everyone else in the nation is 'enlightened.' There is racism everywhere, and there is good everywhere.
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The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.
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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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I'm starstruck everyday. The day I'm not starstruck, I'll have to retire.
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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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You have to create your own path and I'm up to the challenge.
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I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse.
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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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You can't be from Montgomery, Alabama, and not have a background in the church. It's at the core of who we are as a people.
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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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It is important to learn as much as you can about the person and then throw it all away so that you're not in any way doing some sort of mimicry.
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God in my mind gives you what you need. So, if you need God to be a black woman and you need that for whatever your reasons are, then perhaps your blessings will come in that form.
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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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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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Any upward movement is movement for us all.
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I want to see more women behind the scenes.
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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 want to find things that challenge me.
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