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You have to create your own path and I'm up to the challenge.

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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 gotta go home and feed my eels. They're not electric, but I have a plan.
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I want to see more women as producers.
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I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script.
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The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.
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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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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 want to find things that challenge me.
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What's not fair is having the responsibility of a supervisor but not the title or the pay.
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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 prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.
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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 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'm an actor and I am looking for roles where I can continue to evolve, and things that are challenging. I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television.
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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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For me, when you have to prepare to play God, and then walking away from that, you realize just how tough God's job is. I don't want that job.
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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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I want to see more women behind the scenes.
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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 excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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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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