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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.
Octavia Spencer
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Octavia Spencer
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: May 25
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Montgomery
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Octavia Lenora Spencer
Octavia L. Spencer
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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 prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.
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You never write a speech in advance because if you don't get to use it, you'll be heartbroken.
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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.
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I want to see more women behind the scenes.
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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 live in my truth.
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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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To be silent is to be passive.
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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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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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I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes.
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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 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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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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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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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 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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