Octavia Spencer Quotes
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.
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I look like this for a reason. I was born this way. It was God-given.
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For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.
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She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on.
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I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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I love to push myself.
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People get very trapped where they are. When they hear 'fashion' they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it's so elitist.
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I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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It should be a law for one whole year that all laugh tracks are Seth Rogen. The world would get ever so slightly better.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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I put on whatever is comfortable on me. Suit, jeans and tee as long as it's comfortable. It doesn't matter what brand. If it looks good I buy it.
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I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.
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There's no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.
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I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.
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The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.
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I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am afraid. I don't want to freak anybody out with my passion... So I struggle with that all the time.
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?
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I'd like to think I would have signed the Civil Rights bill and wouldn't have had any issues with it.
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I didn't want to just be another girl singer. I wanted there to be something that set me apart.
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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.
