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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.
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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We know longer live in a homogenous society, it is not black, white, Asian or Latin, it is a melting pot. Until we learn to assimilate and learn about other cultures, we will continue to have racism problems. Of course, there are other '-isms' as our ills. We have sexism, ageism, elitism, homophobia-ism, there are many -isms we have to overcome.
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You have to create your own path and I'm up to the challenge.
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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 want to see more women as producers.
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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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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 want to find things that challenge me.
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I gotta go home and feed my eels. They're not electric, but I have a plan.
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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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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 like a person who knows how to say something dark at a very dark moment. The darker the moment and the darker the comic, the better. Something that is so wrong on all levels.
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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 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 can only live in my truth.
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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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I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes.
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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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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 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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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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