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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. "
Octavia Spencer
Us
World
Been
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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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" You just keep moving forward and doing what you do and hope that it resonates with people. And if it doesn't, you just keep moving on until you find a project that does. "
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" I like to read, even though it was really tough, because I could go anywhere in the world in a book, and I could have so many adventures in a book. "
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" There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period. "
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" You have to create your own path and I'm up to the challenge. "
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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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" I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor'. And she said, 'Maybe not that'. "
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" No person is just one particular emotion. "
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" Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd. "
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" My idea of success is not Oscars. Am I glad I have that little trinket? Yes, I am. But it depends on how you define success. The minute I got my first professional cheque from Joel Schumacher, I was successful. Somebody's paying me to act! "
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" If a little black girl in Montgomery, Alabama, or some far-reaching region sees something that I do and aspires to do it one day with the knowledge that she can achieve it, then hey, my work is done. "
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Knowledge
She
" 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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" City Year resonated with me because when I grew up, we were poor - and an education is a way out of poverty. It's a way out of the current situation that can seem isolating and hopeless for some kids. "
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City
Education
Me
" 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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" I think the paradigm is shifting with regard to women and what we bring to the industry. I feel very blessed. "
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Bring
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Feel
" Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire. "
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Woman
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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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Women
Good
Men
" I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act. "
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Time
Hope
Never
" Women drive box office. "
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Women
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" I probably wanted to be Pam Grier growing up. "
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Growing
Wanted
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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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" The reality is that there are so few roles out there for women and for women of color, and I'm a character actor, this I know. And I'm getting to see more of the roles that are out there, but there aren't many. And zilch have been studio movies. Zilch. "
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" What I love about Tadashi is that he isn't a designer that designs only for a double-zero. He designs for double-Ds, you know? Women of all shapes and sizes can wear him. "
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" I was an intern on a film called 'The Long Walk Home.' "
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Long
Intern
Home
" 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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" Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind. "
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" Being a part of a large family is just like a little society: those who fight to the top of the heap. We relied on each other and still do. They never discouraged me or told me to get a proper job. "
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Top
" I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes. "
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" My family supported me before any of this crazy notion of moving out to Hollywood and staking my claim. That support has never waned. "
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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 are the best thing since sliced bread. So take it seriously, but don't take it too seriously. "
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