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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! "

Octavia Spencer

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" Be happy in your own skin. "

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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. "

Octavia Spencer

" It's been pretty effortless with Sensa because I am not thinking about how long do I need to do this. Usually, when you stop a diet program, you lose control again. But I don't need to stop what I'm doing. I'm eating everything that I like. Sensa just helps me keep it all in check. "

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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? "

Octavia Spencer

" I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the typical Hollywood beauty. "

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" I am not trying to conform to an unrealistic model of beauty. I am, however, being proactive in being the healthiest I can be. "

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" People think that I have this wonderful hourglass figure, but I owe that to designer Tadashi Shoji because he cuts for me really well. "

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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. "

Octavia Spencer

" 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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" 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. "

Octavia Spencer

" Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind. "

Octavia Spencer

" I'm definitely neurotic. I don't cross streets and stuff. "

Octavia Spencer

" My weight has always been a struggle for me. "

Octavia Spencer

" 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. "

Octavia Spencer

" 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. "

Octavia Spencer

" 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. "

Octavia Spencer

" 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. "

Octavia Spencer

" I am not maternal at all. I don't have any kids. "

Octavia Spencer

" 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. "

Octavia Spencer

" When we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand. "

Octavia Spencer

" Will Smith would not be Worldwide Will Smith if he had not insisted on going worldwide and touring with his films. You have to build that audience for people and allow for it to happen. "

Octavia Spencer

" 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. "

Octavia Spencer

" It may sound funny, but it's true: I tried to put myself through the 12-step program. I didn't want to attend a real meeting; my role didn't really require that, and I feel those meetings are sort of sacred, and they're anonymous for a reason. I tried to deal with some of my love of snacks - and I relapsed a lot. "

Octavia Spencer

" Yes, you want to do studio movies, but I also want to grow as an actor, and an actress like me is not going to get roles where you grow and evolve in a studio film. It's just not gonna happen. "

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" The pace of television is very different from film. "

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" The mentality of how we treat one another needs to be examined - especially how we treat our men of color. "

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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. "

Octavia Spencer

" If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating! "

Octavia Spencer

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

Octavia Spencer

" Do I feel that white directors have to tell only white stories? No. Do I feel that black filmmakers should only tell stories about black people? No. If we say that, then that means Asian people cannot write about anybody but Asians. I don't think a woman should only write about women. "

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