Octavia Spencer Quotes

One thing I've learned is be comfortable in your skin, and more importantly, be comfortable in your shoes.

Octavia Spencer

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• I like films to be complete in their written form.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Like
  • Form
  • Complete

• You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • Work
  • You
  • Air

• I grew up playing basketball and baseball. I've always been active because my dad played professional football, so sports and working out have always been a part of my life.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Life
  • Up
  • Dad

• How can something that's 95% water be so divisive? Alone among vegetables, the poor, innocent stick of celery elicits the most vicious attacks.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Alone
  • Water
  • Poor

• One of the things I have to do, and I'm working on it, is making sure I enjoy the ride along the way. I have to remind myself, 'Take a look around, look at things, and enjoy it.'

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Myself
  • Enjoy
  • Ride

• I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children's chorus. I was super fat at the time and didn't make eye contact with anyone. I knew I loved acting ever since.

  

  Owen Benjamin
  • Time
  • Children
  • Dad

• Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.

  

  Jack Paar
  • Immigration
  • Form
  • Flattery

• Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • Speak
  • Silent

• There is nothing in my work that can be taken as blasphemy.

  

  Oleg Kulik
  • Work
  • Taken
  • Nothing

• I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Up
  • Childhood
  • Grow

• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • You
  • Learn
  • Changing

• The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • People
  • Life
  • Change

• A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Up
  • World
  • House

• Music has always been my passion for as long as I can remember.

  

  Manika
  • Music
  • Long
  • Remember

• I love New York. Love it.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Love
  • New
  • New York

• Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Joy
  • Things

• Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Chinese
  • Writer
  • Soviet

• The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Place
  • Cruelty
  • Stands

• The only way for me to be an artist is to be honest in my craft. If I veer from that, I'm not giving the investors what they want. Sometimes it's my job as an artist to know what I want to do, even when the fans tell me different.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Different
  • Job
  • Giving

• PENSION - An allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Country

• You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Eyes

• Whenever I do your show, sometimes I get a little check in the mail and then I take that check and buy a new pair of shoes, and then I wear those shoes the next time I do your show.

  

  Amy Sedaris
  • Time
  • Shoes

• The soles of the best writers, a professor once told me, are worn down to holes. This is an incomplete measure, but the image of a writer grinding his or her shoes against curbs and cobblestones stuck with me. The story is always out there, the details around the corner or down the alley.

  

  David Ebershoff
  • Shoes

• One thing I've learned is be comfortable in your skin, and more importantly, be comfortable in your shoes.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Shoes