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36 quotes by Octavia Spencer

Octavia Lenora Spencer (born May 25, 1972) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Minny, the outspoken maid in the 2011 film The Help, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress, among other accolades, including the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role.
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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... →

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The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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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As you make your way along life's tumultuous highways, it's important to note that you should always carry a map, have plenty of fuel in the... →

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As we women know, there are so many other hurdles that we have to cross that I would love it if we could stop having the race conversation so that we... →

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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... →

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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... →

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The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.

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To be silent is to be passive.

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

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