Octavia Spencer
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Birthplace:
Montgomery, Alabama, USA
Alabama native Octavia Spencer was working as part of the crew for the 1996 thriller A Time to Kill when she was handed the chance of a lifetime: Director Joel Schumacher thought she was right for a small role in the film, and Spencer's acting career was born. In addition to honing her craft on the professional stages of Los Angeles, Spencer continued to act on screen, appearing in a multitude of projects, including Never Been Kissed, Blue Streak, Big Momma's House, Dinner for Schmucks, and Peep World. Spencer also became a familiar TV face, with starring and recurring roles on LAX, Ugly Betty, Halfway Home, and Raising the Bar. A major boon for Spencer arrived in 2011 when, after 15 years in the industry, her performance in the critically acclaimed period movie The Help earned her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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25% | Thunder Force |
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— | 2021 |
88% | Onward |
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— | 2020 |
14% | Dolittle |
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— | 2020 |
48% | The Witches |
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— | 2020 |
No Score Yet | Framåt |
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— | 2020 |
No Score Yet | Eteenpäin |
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— | 2020 |
No Score Yet | Fremad |
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— | 2020 |
90% | Luce |
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— | 2019 |
56% | Ma |
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— | 2019 |
81% | Instant Family |
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— | 2018 |
49% | A Kid Like Jake |
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— | 2018 |
78% | Small Town Crime |
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— | 2018 |
92% | The Shape of Water |
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$57.4M | 2017 |
73% | Gifted |
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$24.8M | 2017 |
No Score Yet | Car Dogs |
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— | 2017 |
21% | The Shack |
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$57.4M | 2017 |
93% | Hidden Figures |
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$169.4M | 2017 |
24% | Bad Santa 2 |
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$17.7M | 2016 |
65% | The Great Gilly Hopkins |
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— | 2016 |
50% | The Free World |
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— | 2016 |
28% | Fathers And Daughters |
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— | 2016 |
11% | The Divergent Series: Allegiant |
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— | 2016 |
98% | Zootopia |
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$341.3M | 2016 |
28% | Insurgent |
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$114.2M | 2015 |
38% | Black or White |
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$15.6M | 2015 |
No Score Yet | Branco Sai, Preto Fica (White Out, Black In) |
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— | 2015 |
No Score Yet | Zbuntowana 3D |
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— | 2015 |
80% | Get On Up |
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$22.9M | 2014 |
94% | Snowpiercer |
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$2.8M | 2014 |
No Score Yet | Jesus People |
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— | 2014 |
21% | Paradise |
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— | 2013 |
No Score Yet | Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy |
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— | 2013 |
42% | Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters |
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$68.6M | 2013 |
94% | Fruitvale Station |
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$11.1M | 2013 |
No Score Yet | Call Me Crazy: A Five Film |
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— | 2013 |
83% | Smashed |
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$0.4M | 2012 |
No Score Yet | Blues for Willadean |
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— | 2012 |
No Score Yet | Lost On Purpose |
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— | 2012 |
16% | Flypaper |
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$1.6k | 2011 |
76% | The Help |
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$169.8M | 2011 |
42% | Dinner for Schmucks |
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$73M | 2010 |
No Score Yet | Small Town Saturday Night |
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— | 2010 |
92% | Drag Me to Hell |
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$42.1M | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Herpes Boy |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | The First Time |
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— | 2009 |
27% | Seven Pounds |
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$70M | 2008 |
No Score Yet | Pretty Ugly People |
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— | 2008 |
65% | The Nines |
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— | 2007 |
11% | Pulse |
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$20.3M | 2006 |
22% | Marilyn Hotchkiss Ballroom Dancing & Charm School |
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$0.2M | 2006 |
33% | Pretty Persuasion |
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$59.1k | 2005 |
15% | Miss Congeniality 2 - Armed and Fabulous |
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$47.1M | 2005 |
64% | Coach Carter |
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$67.2M | 2005 |
31% | Breakin' All the Rules |
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$11.9M | 2004 |
54% | Win a Date With Tad Hamilton! |
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$16.9M | 2004 |
78% | Bad Santa |
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— | 2003 |
37% | Legally Blonde 2 - Red, White & Blonde |
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$89.9M | 2003 |
90% | Spider-Man |
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$403.8M | 2002 |
69% | Everything Put Together |
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— | 2001 |
No Score Yet | Follow the Stars Home |
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— | 2001 |
No Score Yet | Sol Goode |
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— | 2001 |
No Score Yet | Four Dogs Playing Poker |
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— | 2000 |
30% | Big Momma's House |
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$0.5M | 2000 |
42% | What Planet Are You From? |
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— | 2000 |
29% | American Virgin |
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— | 2000 |
94% | Being John Malkovich |
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— | 1999 |
36% | Blue Streak |
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— | 1999 |
55% | Never Been Kissed |
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— | 1999 |
17% | Sparkler |
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— | 1999 |
23% | The Sixth Man |
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— | 1997 |
67% | A Time to Kill |
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— | 1996 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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68% |
Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker
2020
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No Score Yet |
The Daily Show With Trevor Noah
2015
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73% |
Schooled
2019
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31% |
Truth Be Told
2019-2020
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No Score Yet |
Jimmy Kimmel Live
2003
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No Score Yet |
Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party
2016-2020
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No Score Yet |
The Graham Norton Show
2007
|
|
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92% |
black-ish
2014
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No Score Yet |
The Late Late Show With James Corden
2015
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No Score Yet |
The Talk
2010
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No Score Yet |
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
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No Score Yet |
Close Up With the Hollywood Reporter
2015
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No Score Yet |
The Goldbergs
2013
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No Score Yet |
To Tell the Truth
2016
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No Score Yet |
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
|
|
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No Score Yet |
Saturday Night Live
1975
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No Score Yet |
The Chew
2011-2018
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No Score Yet |
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2015-2019
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No Score Yet |
Tavis Smiley
2013-2018
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No Score Yet |
CBS This Morning
2012
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No Score Yet |
Charlie Rose
2013-2017
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No Score Yet |
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
2015
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No Score Yet |
Drunk History
2013
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59% |
Red Band Society
2014-2015
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No Score Yet |
Mom
2013
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No Score Yet |
The View
1997
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No Score Yet |
Conan
2010
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No Score Yet |
Late Night With Seth Meyers
2014
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78% |
30 Rock
2006-2020
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No Score Yet |
Chelsea Lately
2007-2014
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No Score Yet |
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno
1992-2014
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No Score Yet |
The Nate Berkus Show
2010-2013
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71% |
Dollhouse
2009-2010
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68% |
Worst Week
2008-2009
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22% |
Raising the Bar
2008-2009
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No Score Yet |
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000-2015
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No Score Yet |
Wizards of Waverly Place
2007-2012
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81% |
The Big Bang Theory
2007-2019
|
|
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60% |
Halfway Home
2007
|
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97% |
Ugly Betty
2006-2010
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23% |
Standoff
2006
|
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67% |
Huff
2006
|
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38% |
LAX
2004-2005
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27% |
Presidio Med
2002-2003
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No Score Yet |
Dharma & Greg
1997-2002
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No Score Yet |
Grounded for Life
2001-2005
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No Score Yet |
Becker
1998-2004
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20% |
City of Angels
2000
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45% |
Time of Your Life
1999-2000
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No Score Yet |
ER
1994-2009
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No Score Yet |
Madam C.J. Walker
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No Score Yet |
Mom
|
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83% |
NYPD Blue
1993-2005
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Quotes from Octavia Spencer's Characters
Johanna: | Great leaders don't seek power, they're called by necessity. |
Minny Jackson: | Fried chicken just tend to make you feel better about life. |
Minny Jackson: | Minnie don't burn fried chicken. |
Celia Foote: | They don't like me because of what they think I did. |
Minny Jackson: | They don't like you because they think that you white trash. |
Minny Jackson: | I can't let you eat anymore cornpone. Mr. Johnny. |
Johnny Foote: | Well, thanks to you, now I have to let out every pair of pants I own. |
Minny Jackson: | Now Mr. Johnny's gonna catch me here, and shoot me dead right here on this no-wax floor. You gotta tell him. Ain't he wonderin' how the cookin's so good? |
Celia Foote: | You're right. Maybe we oughta burn the chicken a little. |
Minny Jackson: | Minnie don't burn no chicken. |
Minny Jackson: | Forgive me, Lord, but I have to kill that woman, Aibileen. Now, she's gone puttin' pencil marks on my toilet paper. |
Aibileen Clark: | Did she? |
Minny Jackson: | But I carry the paper in from my own house. That fool don't know. |
Aibileen Clark: | Miss Leefolt got so much hairspray on her head and she's gonna blow us all up if she lights a cigarette. |
Minny Jackson: | And you know that she will. |
Minny Jackson: | (talking to Aibileen as she points to Skeeter) I gotta make sure she understands that expression. |
Minny Jackson: | I gotta make sure she understands that expression. |
Minny Jackson: | Eat my shit. |
Hilly Holbrook: | Have you lost your mind?! |
Minny Jackson: | No, but you're about to, 'cause you just did. |
Hilly Holbrook: | Did what? |
Minny Jackson: | (Talking to Skeeter) You ain't nothin' left here but enemies in the Junior League. You've done burned every bridge there is. And you ain't never gonna get another man in this town. Everybody knows that. So don't walk your white butt to New York, run it!. |
Minny Jackson: | [talking to Skeeter] You ain't nothin' left here but enemies in the Junior League. You've done burned every bridge there is. And you ain't never gonna get another man in this town. Everybody knows that. So don't walk your white butt to New York, run it! |
Minny Jackson: | Forgive me, Lord, but I have to kill that woman, Aibileen. Now, she gone to putting pencil marks on my toilet paper. |
Aibileen Clark: | Did she? |
Minny Jackson: | But I carry paper in from my own damn house. That fool don't know. |
Aibileen Clark: | Miss Leefolt got so much hairspray on her head she gonna blow us all up if she light a cigarette. |
Minny Jackson: | And you know she will! |
Aibileen Clark: | Hey Minny |
Aibileen Clark: | Hey Minny. |
Minny Jackson: | Hey Aiblienen |
Minny Jackson: | Hey Aiblienen. |
Yule Mae Davis: | Hey Minny |
Yule Mae Davis: | Hey Minny. |
Minny Jackson: | Hmmmmm |
Minny Jackson: | Hmmmmm. |
Jenny: | It's hard to life your life honestly. |
Minny Jackson: | Fried chicken just tend to make you feel better about life. |
Hilly Holbrook: | Have you lost your mind? |
Minny Jackson: | No ma'am, but you 'bout to. |
Minny Jackson: | You're a fool, woman. You're a fool! |
Minny Jackson: | Eat my shit!. |
Minny Jackson: | Eat my shit! |
Hilly Holbrook: | Excuse me?. |
Hilly Holbrook: | Excuse me? |
Minny Jackson: | I said eat... my... shit!. |
Minny Jackson: | I said eat... my... shit! |
Hilly Holbrook: | Have you lost your mind?. |
Hilly Holbrook: | Have you lost your mind? |
Minny Jackson: | No, ma'am, but, you are about to. 'Cause you just did. |
Minny Jackson: | You ain't got nothing left here but enemies in the Junior League. You done burned every bridge there is. And you ain't never gonna get another man in this town. Everybody know that. So don't walk your white butt to New York, run it! |
Minny Jackson: | Now Mr. Johnny gonna catch me here, and shoot me dead right here on this no-wax floor. You gots to tell him. Ain't he wondering how the cooking's so good? |
Celia Foote: | You're right. Maybe we ought to burn the chicken a little. |
Minny Jackson: | Minny don't burn chicken. |
Celia Foote: | Maybe we ought to burn the chicken a little. |
Minny Jackson: | Minny don't burn chicken. |
Minny Jackson: | Eat my.... |
Hilly Holbrook: | What did you say? |
Hilly Holbrook: | What are you saying? |
Hilly Holbrook: | Are you losing your mind? (Response by Minny: "No, but you are about to." |
Hilly Holbrook: | Have you lost your mind? |
Minny Jackson: | No mam. But you are about to. |
Minny Jackson: | Love and hate are two horns on the same goat. |
Charlotte Phelan: | Love and hate are two horns on the same goat. |
Minny Jackson: | Miss Minnie don't burn no chicken |
Minny Jackson: | Minnie don't burn no chicken. |
Minny Jackson: | Am I supposed to come up with the questions, too? |
Minny Jackson: | Eat my shit! |
Minny Jackson: | Eat. My. Shit. |