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I want to find things that challenge me.

Octavia Spencer

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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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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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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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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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Any upward movement is movement for us all.
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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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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 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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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 like a person who knows how to say something dark at a very dark moment. The darker the moment and the darker the comic, the better. Something that is so wrong on all levels.
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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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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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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 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 do believe that everyone has something to contribute.
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The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.
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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 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 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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Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.
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