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I want to find things that challenge me.

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Octavia Spencer
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: May 25
Actor
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Film Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Montgomery
Alabama
Octavia Lenora Spencer
Octavia L. Spencer
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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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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.
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I don't have one role that I want to play. I guess... I want to be a producer. I want to be an activist. I want to be proactive in bringing about work for men, women, boys, girls, everybody who is good at what they do and deserve a shot at it.
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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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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 want to see more women behind the scenes.
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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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I'm glad that I get to take my final walk as the princess of 2012. ...there's nothing wrong with winning an Oscar!
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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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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 really believe things happen as they're supposed to and in the time that they're supposed to.
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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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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 do believe that everyone has something to contribute.
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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'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse.
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I was starstruck and sweat a lot when I met Oprah Winfrey and tried to hug her. Because when you think you know people when you see them from your couch.
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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 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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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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