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" I am not maternal at all. I don't have any kids. "
Octavia Spencer
I Am
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" The pace of television is very different from film. "
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" You would not believe that Paula Patton and I have the same trainer. "
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" You have to get out of your comfort zone in order to grow. And as an actor, you don't become Meryl Streep by doing the same type of comedy. You get there by being challenged. And unfortunately, there's a lack of roles for women of color, so you actually have to be the engineer creating some of those roles. "
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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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" Needless to say, I would have loved to have been a black belt instead of actually just wearing one to hold up my pants! "
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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 probably wanted to be Pam Grier growing up. "
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" You have to create your own path and I'm up to the challenge. "
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" I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is. "
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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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" If you come out of the gate with a finger pointed, then you really aren't opening the door to any sort of resolution to whatever the problem may be. Whether it's about race or sexual orientation or religion, if you can't empathize with the opposing party, then you can't really meet in the middle. "
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" As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny. "
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" Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright. "
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Me
" 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 me. "
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" Your parents only want what's best for you. They know a career in the arts usually means living paycheck to paycheck; they just want you to know that you have other options! "
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" I literally don't think about Oscar. "
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" The fact that women are very young in obtaining their civil rights and African-Americans are young in obtaining their civil rights, I think it's about time that we extend that to all Americans, whether straight, gay, purple, green, black, brown. "
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" When you give kids the tools necessary to change their destiny, it's really empowering. "
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" The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page. "
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" People want to see more diversity. That's why you have the Kevin Hart making $17 million dollars on a holiday weekend. "
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" No person is just one particular emotion. "
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" The statement that I made and that I think I will continue to make is that racism and bigotry isn't just relegated to the Southern region; it permeates the history of our nation. It's not to say that we haven't made progress. Obviously we have with our first African American president, and I never thought that would happen in my lifetime. "
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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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" Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind. "
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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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" We always think that we're going to be young forever, and now when I wake up, I need to stretch, and I need to have my glass of water and be cognizant of what I'm doing with my body. "
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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 can get women further on. You know, a female president now that we have an African American president. Maybe we can get an Asian female, a gay person? "
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