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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.
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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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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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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The fact that women are very young in obtaining their civil rights and African-Americans are young in obtaining their civil rights, I think it's about time that we extend that to all Americans, whether straight, gay, purple, green, black, brown.
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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 want to see more women as producers.
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I want to see more women behind the scenes.
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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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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 want to find things that challenge me.
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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'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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I'm starstruck everyday. The day I'm not starstruck, I'll have to retire.
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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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What's not fair is having the responsibility of a supervisor but not the title or the pay.
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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'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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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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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 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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