Octavia Spencer Quotes
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.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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I had to work with a psychiatrist.
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As an actor, you read so many scripts and parts written for Asian-specific characters, and you see a lot of stereotypes and a lot of one-note characters, especially in comedy.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.
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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
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I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
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Our growing, robust economy is able to provide the average American citizen access to the best social program there is - a steady job.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.
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It's hard to juggle being a businessperson with being a creative person. You have to organize yourself - PR needs me for PR, and the licensing division needs me for licensing, the bridal people need me for bridal.
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No matter how you handle alcohol at your wedding, you will most likely be upsetting someone.
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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.
