Octavia Spencer Quotes

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

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  Way, Proactive, Active

  "Interview with Octavia Spencer of The Help". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. August 9, 2011.

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• You have to get out of your comfort zone in order to grow.

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  Order, Comfort, Grows

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• One thing I've learned is be comfortable in your skin, and more importantly, be comfortable in your shoes.

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  Shoes, Skins, I've Learned

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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 tank, and take frequent rest stops.

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  Important, Tanks, Fuel

  "Oprah Writes Letter To Her Teenage Self. What Would You Say?", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 3, 2012.

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• The things that scare you only make you better and stronger.

  Octavia Spencer

  Stronger, Scare

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I can only be the best version of myself and understand that the only way that we as a people can heal is to understand that the next person's journey may not be your own, but it doesn't mean that you have to marginalize them in any way.

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  Mean, Journey, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• 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.

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  Moving, Thinking, Better Person

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• I'm attracted to things that make me want to be a better person.

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  Want, Better Person, Being A Better Person

  Source: www.ebony.com

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

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  Challenges, Common, Free Life

  Source: collider.com

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• I can only live in my truth.

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  My Truth, I Can

  Source: www.npr.org

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

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  Unique, Challenges, Deals

  Source: collider.com

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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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  Dream, Art, Destiny

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

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  Loss

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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

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  Challenges, Path

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

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  Views, Color, Different

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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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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  Moving, People, Doe

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• To be silent is to be passive.

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  Silent, Passive

  "SAG Awards 2012: The Winners' Reactions" by Lesley Goldberg , Borys Kit, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 29, 2012.

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• 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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  Girl, Thinking, Mind

  "INSURGENT Interview: Shailene Woodley, Naomi Watts, and Octavia Spencer". Press conference, collider.com. March 20, 2015.

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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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  Rights, Parent, Generations

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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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  Reality, World, Realist

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• 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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  Typical, Hollywood, Way

  "OTRC: Oscars 2012: Octavia Spencer backstage: I hope I can be 'beacon of hope'". abc7.com. February 26, 2012.

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• At 21, you can live life with reckless abandon, as reckless as your abandon is. Then, at 30, there's something there are the supposed to be's. You're like, "I'm supposed to be doing this. I'm supposed to be doing that." You start measuring your life by what you think you're supposed to be doing. Having recently turned 40, it's like, "What the hell?! Why am I worried about what I'm supposed to be doing? What do I want to do?" You become fine with wherever the road takes you.

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  Live Life, Thinking, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• Everything happens when it's supposed to.

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  Happens, Things Happen

  Source: www.npr.org

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• My faith is tested daily.

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  Tested

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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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.

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  Integrity, Black, Negative

  Source: www.hollywood.com

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