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Octavia Spencer

Octavia Lenora Spencer (born May 25, 1972) is an American actress and author. She is the recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Golden Globe Award. She is one of two black actresses to have received three Academy Award nominations and is the only black actress to receive two consecutive nominations.

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Only when you find the courage to say something to someone that might influence a change in your behavior, does that behavior change.

Behavior, Behavior Change, Change, Courage, Doe, Might

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.

Actors, Character, Figure, Script, Thieves

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.

Girl, Thinking, Mind, Minds, Think, Damsel

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.

Levels, Mean, Ready, Resonate, Say, Scripts

I can't speak for what other artists should do. I can only tell you how I live.

Artist, Artists, Live, Should, Speak, Tell

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.

Art, Destiny, Dream, Dreams, Respect

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.

Boys, Bringing, Girl, Guess, Men, Shot

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

Interviews, People, Prefer, Real, Say

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.

Live, Maybe, Multifaceted, Realist, Reality, World

I have experienced loss in my life, but the thing that brings you back is your faith.

Back, Faith, Life, Loss, Thing

To be silent is to be passive.

Silent, Passive

I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.

Excited, Love, Projects, Speak

I gotta go home and feed my eels. They're not electric, but I have a plan.

Eels, Electric, Feed, Home, Plans

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.

Away, Important, Learn, Mimicry, Throw, Way

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 are the best thing since sliced bread. So take it seriously, but don't take it too seriously.

Believe, Davises, Emma, Promise, Sliced, Thinking

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.

Bigs, Norm, Reach, Universal, Way, Ways

What's not fair is having the responsibility of a supervisor but not the title or the pay.

Fair, Pay, Responsibility, Title, Titles

There are enough negative images of Black women out there and I did not want to portray Dorothy Vaughn in any stereotype. I wanted to make sure that her integrity was preserved.

Black, Images, Integrity, Make, Negative, Vaughn

Every character I get to play has some element of who I am, but there's no fun in playing yourself. At least, for me, there isn't.

Character, Element, Fun, Play, Who I Am

At 21, you can live life with reckless abandon, as reckless as your abandon is. Then, at 30, there's something there are the supposed to be's. You're like, "I'm supposed to be doing this. I'm supposed to be doing that. " You start measuring your life by what you think you're supposed to be doing. Having recently turned 40, it's like, "What the hell?! Why am I worried about what I'm supposed to be doing? What do I want to do?" You become fine with wherever the road takes you.

Hell, Live Life, Measuring, Reckless, Thinking, Want

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