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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.
Octavia Spencer
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Octavia Spencer
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: May 25
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Montgomery
Alabama
Octavia Lenora Spencer
Octavia L. Spencer
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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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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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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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What's not fair is having the responsibility of a supervisor but not the title or the pay.
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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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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 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 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 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 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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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 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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God in my mind gives you what you need. So, if you need God to be a black woman and you need that for whatever your reasons are, then perhaps your blessings will come in that form.
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You have to create your own path and I'm up to the challenge.
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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 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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My faith is tested daily.
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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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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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