Octavia Spencer Quotes

I love working with kids and seeing the light come on when they realize they are smart. It's so beautiful to watch.

Octavia Spencer

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• We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.

  

  Jack Williamson
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Imagination

• I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Love
  • Romantic
  • For Him

• I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've worked as a doctor clown in a hospital for two years. I have seen sick kids and sad parents and doctors be lifted and transported in moments of pure joy. I know theater unites us.

  

  Natasha Tsakos
  • People
  • Kids
  • Parents

• I don't know how many more times I'll be in New England again. But I leave coach Belichick and those guys with a salute: 'I love you guys. I miss you. I'm out.'

  

  Randy Moss
  • Love
  • Know
  • I Love You

• The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.

  

  Washed Out
  • Beautiful
  • You
  • Perspective

• You know how you can be romantic? You can be romantic by going to a beautiful setting, sitting on a park bench, and getting good ole-fashioned golden arches, a.k.a. McDonald's. That's probably the best I can do romantically.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Good
  • Beautiful
  • Best

• I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me.

  

  J. Cole
  • Know
  • Me
  • Smart

• Free love sounds great.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Great
  • Love
  • Free

• I always love listening to Bob Dylan. 'Blood on the Tracks' is one of my favorite albums.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Love
  • Listening
  • Blood

• This may sound funny, but I feel my most beautiful when I'm clean, fresh out of the bath. I don't have to be dressed up. I could be in comfy clothes at home hanging out with my family.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Up
  • Family
  • May

• I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Young

• If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Want

• One of the greatest gifts God ever gave to humanity was that of liberty. We love freedom and bloom under it. We cannot and should not try to force people to live by a certain religious code. To do so negates our free will.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • God
  • Humanity
  • Liberty

• The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Reading

• To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Relationship

• Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Dwell

• I love to pitch things that I believe in and products that I love to use.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Believe
  • Things
  • Use

• Personally, I'm not into reality shows - I can't even name a reality show that I was a really big fan of, altogether as a whole, not just from MTV. Like, if ABC has another reality show, I'm like, 'Oh God, another reality show.' But people love them. 'The Hills', 'Laguna Beach'... those do extremely well. It's just a personal preference.

  

  Damien Fahey
  • People
  • God
  • Reality

• For transgender kids who are struggling, I want them to know they're not alone. They shouldn't be afraid to step out of their shadows.

  

  Jazz Jennings
  • Kids
  • Alone

• There are so many times in my life when I wish I had the power to destroy anyone who would threaten or seek to humiliate the people I love. When you were a small, shy, awkward kid like me, and you saw and experienced some of the things I did and you can do nothing, you're going to gravitate to those comic books and fantasies where the nerd gets bit by a radioactive spider and can beat up the bad guys.

  

  Bao Phi
  • People
  • Book
  • Kids

• «To me, being president of the country is awesome.»

  

  Mariano Rajoy
  • Country
  • Awesome

• Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.

  

  Pope John Paul II
  • World
  • America
  • Society

• Truth seeks light, lies seek shadows.

  

  Anthony Douglas Williams
  • Truth
  • Light
  • Lies

• I love working with kids and seeing the light come on when they realize they are smart. It's so beautiful to watch.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Kids
  • Beautiful
  • Smart