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To be silent is to be passive.

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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
Silent
Passive

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I'm not trying to be a different weight. I want to be a different body type so that I'm not an apple. I just want to be a pear!
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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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You have to create your own path and I'm up to the challenge.
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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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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 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 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 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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As an actor, you don't become Meryl Streep by doing the same type of comedy. You get there by being challenged.
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The one thing that I realize - well, not the one thing, but it was a big thing - having in my head that I need to get healthier. It's been a very gradual process for me.
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You know, bigotry isn't relevant to just the South. It never was. But I'm very grateful that I don't know what it's like from experience.
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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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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 really believe things happen as they're supposed to and in the time that they're supposed to.
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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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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 prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.
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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 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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We know longer live in a homogenous society, it is not black, white, Asian or Latin, it is a melting pot. Until we learn to assimilate and learn about other cultures, we will continue to have racism problems. Of course, there are other '-isms' as our ills. We have sexism, ageism, elitism, homophobia-ism, there are many -isms we have to overcome.
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