Latest Octavia Spencer Quotes from Interviews

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• 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.

  Octavia Spencer

  Integrity, Black, Negative

  Source: www.hollywood.com

• 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.

  Octavia Spencer

  Important

  Source: www.hollywood.com

• I really believe things happen as they're supposed to and in the time that they're supposed to.

  Octavia Spencer

  Believe, Happens, Things Happen

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

• I don't ever want to be the type of person to tell you what to think or what to believe. Whatever stage in your life that you are in, I want you to organically reach whatever conclusions that you possibly reach.

  Octavia Spencer

  Believe, Thinking, Want

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

• I look for roles that resonate with me these days. While I love putting out just fabulous entertainment, I think now as artists, especially with so much uncertainty going on in the world, you want to be a part of things that offer or promote healing in some way and perhaps a little introspection once you leave.

  Octavia Spencer

  Healing, Thinking, Artist

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

• Because we all come from different circumstances, our life experiences really color how we view things.

  Octavia Spencer

  Views, Color, Different

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

• God in my mind gives you what you need. So, if you need God to be a black woman and you need that for whatever your reasons are, then perhaps your blessings will come in that form.

  Octavia Spencer

  Blessing, Giving, Mind

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

• My job as an artist is to present the material. My job as a woman is to receive from it what I need.

  Octavia Spencer

  Jobs, Artist, Needs

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

• I just know that the one thing that we all have in common is challenges. No one lives a challenge free life.

  Octavia Spencer

  Challenges, Common, Free Life

  Source: collider.com

• Our challenges make us unique, and how we deal with them makes us unique.

  Octavia Spencer

  Unique, Challenges, Deals

  Source: collider.com

• I hate to tell people what they should think 'cause I really have an aversion when people tell me what to think.

  Octavia Spencer

  Hate, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

• My faith is tested daily.

  Octavia Spencer

  Tested

  Source: www.christianpost.com

• You can't be from Montgomery, Alabama, and not have a background in the church. It's at the core of who we are as a people.

  Octavia Spencer

  People, Church, Alabama

  Source: www.christianpost.com

• Where I'm from, you learned about God before you learned to read and write. Our faith is what grounds us.

  Octavia Spencer

  Writing

  Source: www.christianpost.com

• I don't think you learn as much about yourself when you are moving forwards as when you have fallen backwards. That's when you really learn who you are. And reach for the things that have propelled you forward and made you a better person.

  Octavia Spencer

  Moving, Thinking, Better Person

• I have always been very family-oriented. I came from a dysfunctional, broken family growing up, and it's probably instilled in me the need and the want to have a strong family and a great foundation. So I think that is something that I naturally gravitate toward.

  Octavia Spencer

  Strong, Growing Up, Thinking

• The older you get, you always learn more. Sometimes it's a process of learning about yourself and what your journey is. Sometimes the process moves forward at a rapid pace in a short amount of time - or moves backwards. And you're like, "Man, I thought I had made so much progress, and now all of a sudden, I'm 10 steps further behind than when I started."

  Octavia Spencer

  Moving, Journey, Men

• 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.

  Octavia Spencer

  Way, Bigs, Norm

• For me, when you have to prepare to play God, and then walking away from that, you realize just how tough God's job is. I don't want that job.

  Octavia Spencer

  Jobs, Walking Away, Play

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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

  Octavia Spencer

  Loss

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

• It's very seldom that we see the good of the South. There is a perception that Southerners are racists and everyone else in the nation is 'enlightened.' There is racism everywhere, and there is good everywhere.

  Octavia Spencer

  Racism, Perception, Racist

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

• There is one thing about knowing history, and another in recreating it.

  Octavia Spencer

  Knowing, One Thing

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

• We know longer live in a homogenous society, it is not black, white, Asian or Latin, it is a melting pot. Until we learn to assimilate and learn about other cultures, we will continue to have racism problems. Of course, there are other '-isms' as our ills. We have sexism, ageism, elitism, homophobia-ism, there are many -isms we have to overcome.

  Octavia Spencer

  Latin, Other Cultures, White

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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

  Octavia Spencer

  Behavior Change, Doe, Might

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

• 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.

  Octavia Spencer

  Character, Thieves, Actors

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com