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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.
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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The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.
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As an actor, I've learned to become a detective. You have to figure out who that person is. If the character is a thief, you have to figure out what makes them a thief. Whatever the prevailing idiosyncrasy is, I have to find it in the script.
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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 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 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 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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I'm starstruck everyday. The day I'm not starstruck, I'll have to retire.
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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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My faith is tested daily.
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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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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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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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I can only live in my truth.
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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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I can't speak for what other artists should do. I can only tell you how I live.
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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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I think it's actually a misperception that I am a comedic actress. I do more drama than comedy but very little of it has been seen. When you are in big funny movies and they do well and your little part in it kind of explodes people perceive you as a comedian.
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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 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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