Octavia Spencer Quotes
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My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.
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It is hard to watch myself. I'm hypercritical, and it's difficult to watch a performance when I may end up being at odds with it - wishing I'd done something differently or that they had edited it a certain way.
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I feel like I grew up in the circus. I know planes, trains and automobiles. And really talented, weird people.
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There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
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I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.
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You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.
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I'm a stand-up comic. I'm always doing dates; it's just that, if I'm working on a project or I'm busy, I can't get out on the road or book any shows. Since the beginning of my career, I'm usually out for at least 10-15 dates throughout the year. If I have time, then I try to get at least 30-40 dates.
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When did you last have fun being dignified?
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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
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I'm always up for going back to the stage.
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MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.
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You might say that I'm the Michelangelo of the dress business.
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You get callbacks, and they either give it to what they call a 'name' performer, or they decide to go in an entirely different direction.
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If you have injuries, it's tough.
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That Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me.
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I still feel as if I weren't a good enough mother. I didn't break any rules.
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I think that the women's magazines and a lot of those quick tips for better sex, I think that they do people a disservice, sometimes, because they become very focused on - they're thinking, 'Okay, I read that I should do this, and am I doing it right?'
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But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men.
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You're in a bathing suit pretty much all year round working for Victoria's Secret. There's so many shoots, and we're always in lingerie, so you kinda always have to be prepared and ready.
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You have to create your own path and I'm up to the challenge.
