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I can only live in my truth.

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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
Truth
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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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The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.
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You have to create your own path and I'm up to the challenge.
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To be silent is to be passive.
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I can't speak for what other artists should do. I can only tell you how I live.
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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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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 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'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 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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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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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 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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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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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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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'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes.
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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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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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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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