Quotes by Octavia Spencer

About Octavia Spencer:

Octavia Lenora Spencer is an American actress and author.
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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 receiv...

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I was a production assistant. I saw what people who are full of themselves are like - another reason not to lose your humility! I have a mouth on me so I wasn't the best P.A.

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I just think that you have to believe in yourself and you have to work very hard. You can't ever think that you're the best thing since sliced bread because I promise you, there are going to be Viola Davises and Jessica Chastains and Emma Stones who ...

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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 think if I weren't so squeamish, I would have been some sort of forensic analyst. And I can't do anything with a microscope, because then I start thinking about the world of germs around us.

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Weight issues, race issues will always be there and if you allow them to get to you and you allow them to affect you then yes they affect you. But my thing is I have so many other things to worry about I can't worry about other people's perception of...

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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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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 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 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 prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.

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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'm not a fan of 'Gone With the Wind.' I didn't like the movie. I didn't like the book.

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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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I think my role, I want to have a presence both behind the scenes and in front of the camera. So I can't say on one particular thing, so I'll just name them all. I'll be the jack of all trades and hopefully decent at one of them.

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To be silent is to be passive.

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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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You have to create your own path and I'm up to the challenge.

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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 a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.

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Author Bio

  • NameOctavia Spencer
  • DescriptionAmerican actress
  • BornMay 25, 1970
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionTelevision Actor; Film Actor; Actor
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Supporting Actress