Octavia Spencer Quotes
I don't have one role that I want to play. I guess... I want to be a producer. I want to be an activist. I want to be proactive in bringing about work for men, women, boys, girls, everybody who is good at what they do and deserve a shot at it.
Quotes to Explore
-
Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
-
The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.
-
I have an issue with rage. I'm going to work that out, long term.
-
God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.
-
I hope to work till I'm an old lady.
-
I think that ballet is very good for the body. It's very similar to yoga, because you have to hold a position.
-
Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.
-
Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.
-
I think fashion is actually very good training for being in the tech world, because it's all about moving on to the next thing, looking for the next thing, not getting stuck in the past.
-
Bollywood music is definitely a big part of Indian music and can be a great way to introduce people to the sound. But I hope to continue to incorporate other types of Indian music into my work.
-
To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.
-
I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.
-
There's very little you're not exposed to in New York City, in terms of ideas and physical things - sights, sounds, smells, different kinds of people. But one good thing about growing up fast is you get over it fast, too.
-
I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'
-
My favorite charity is the Women's Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.
-
It was really really neat to make the movie because there were mentally challenged actors in the movie. So that was really really cool to work with them and they were always really happy, and they made everybody really happy on the set too.
-
Betty White is a riot. She is a good time! That is the bottom line: Betty White is a good time. She is really an incredible woman. She is so kind. She doesn't have one mean bone in her body, and she is the funniest woman in the room always. And you'll never hear one complaint from her.
-
We must fight terrorism as if there's no peace process and work to achieve peace as if there's no terror.
-
Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects and ended up hating them.
-
I never thought about 'being' in comedy when I grew up, because I didn't know it was a real job. But looking back, it's the only thing I ever really cared about.
-
But a haiku by Buson came into his mind: 'I try to forget this senile love; a chilly autumn shower.' The gloom only grew denser.
-
I make things up for a living. It would be pretty boring to just fictionalize real people.
-
We have perpetrated a myth in our society that being brave means not being afraid, but that's wrong.
-
I don't have one role that I want to play. I guess... I want to be a producer. I want to be an activist. I want to be proactive in bringing about work for men, women, boys, girls, everybody who is good at what they do and deserve a shot at it.
