Octavia Spencer
Octavia Spencer
Octavia Lenora Spencer is an American actress and author. She is best known for her role as Minny Jackson in the 2011 film The Help, for which she won the BAFTA, Golden Globe, SAG, Critics' Choice, and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Other notable films include Get on Up, Black or White, Smashed, Snowpiercer, The Divergent Series: Insurgent, Zootopia, and Fruitvale Station...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth25 May 1970
CityMontgomery, AL
CountryUnited States of America
You know, bigotry isn't relevant to just the South. It never was. But I'm very grateful that I don't know what it's like from experience.
You have to create your own path and I'm up to the challenge.
If you go through life and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.
The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.
Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.
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.
I didn't realize that diets don't work, and I did not want to diet. I didn't want to do anything that required dieting.
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.
To be silent is to be passive.
The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.