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My faith is tested daily.

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
Tested
Daily
Faith

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I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script.
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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 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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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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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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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 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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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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To be silent is to be passive.
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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 can't speak for what other artists should do. I can only tell you how I live.
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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 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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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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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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You have to create your own path and I'm up to the challenge.
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I want to see more women as producers.
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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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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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I want to see more women behind the scenes.
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