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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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Octavia Spencer
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: May 25
Actor
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Film Actor
Television Actor
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Montgomery
Alabama
Octavia Lenora Spencer
Octavia L. Spencer
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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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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.
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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 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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I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes.
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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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To be silent is to be passive.
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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 have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.
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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'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 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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I want to see more women behind the scenes.
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My faith is tested daily.
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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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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'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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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 have to create your own path and I'm up to the challenge.
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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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