Octavia Spencer Quotes
Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.
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I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.
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I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.
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Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
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I've got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me - it's incredible.
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I feel like we can learn from each other by us, being the young generation, giving knowledge to the older guys.
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The problem of working in a mine, you are inside the belly of the monster, and it controls you. The air you breathe, the stones that fall on your head, we had to be on guard.
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Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you don't have kids. When you have kids, things change in your life.
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You can't bank on the outcome.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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Let us have peace.
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You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on the Iraq war. You'll only hear me talk about being gay and being an actor. I am just public on those two issues.
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The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.
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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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You only do exercises in art school. That's not the real thing. A little bit tells you so much. You have to find your own self. And you don't know what you are! But that's what you have to search for.
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I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.
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Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.
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The incarnation was not initially imposed on the spirits as a punishment. It is rather necessary for the spirits' improvement and for the fulfillment of God's works. Everyone has to submit to it, no matter if one takes the evil or the good path. Only those who take the good path will improve quickly, they do not delay to arrive at the end in less painful conditions.
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He is just beginning to get his feet wet. But he definitely will strike you. He's not afraid of anything.
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Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.
