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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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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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Speak
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Christian Louboutin, I love you, but honey, please! But when you have this much weight, you've got to give us a little platform. Sorry! The shoes are stunning though. An ounce of pain, it's worth it.
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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 don't think you learn as much about yourself when you are moving forwards as when you have fallen backwards. That's when you really learn who you are. And reach for the things that have propelled you forward and made you a better person.
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Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.
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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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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 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 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 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 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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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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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'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 really believe things happen as they're supposed to and in the time that they're supposed to.
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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 can only live in my truth.
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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 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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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 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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