Octavia Spencer Quotes

We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.

Octavia Spencer

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• My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Together
  • Fire
  • Athlete

• I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Help
  • Team
  • Style

• I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Family
  • College
  • Proud

• I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• We're pretty good at putting bunts down and really good at hitting. I know as a pitcher, when you face a pitcher you know can hit, that's not fun. I think taking pride in that, and being able to hit helps your own cause.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Pretty

• The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Because the show is popular, people do recognize us on the streets.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • Popular
  • Show

• But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Imagination

• I'm the kind of girl who thinks about what she's gonna cook for dinner when she's finishing her lunch.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • She
  • Girl
  • Dinner

• I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.

  

  L. J. Smith
  • Want
  • Know
  • Me

• Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I'm not saying that's the only calling card, but it's a whole crayon box.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Day
  • Sex
  • Everyday

• That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Great
  • Never
  • Secrets

• I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • People
  • Work
  • Happy

• Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.

  

  Ed Smith
  • Business
  • Black
  • Small

• Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.

  

  H. L. Hunt
  • Work
  • Want
  • Motivational

• My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Dad
  • Son
  • Sad

• I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.

  

  Imelda May
  • Music
  • School
  • Choices

• Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Characters
  • Point
  • Finding

• I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn't open. The only thing I had was cracks. I'd do everything to get through those cracks - scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it's as big as a garage.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Up
  • Opportunity
  • Door

• I don't like speed. I would have made a terrible Futurist. Even when I did take drugs, I never liked amphetamines and much preferred the slow taffy-pull of time that you get with opiates.

  

  Elaine Equi
  • Speed
  • Drugs
  • Opiates

• What the hell, what are these guys thinking about? Can’t you get these guys back in the box?

  

  Colin Powell
  • Thinking

• I feel like you have to be so precise in what you are going to say, or you can be hammered if you say it the wrong way. That part makes feel bummed out because sometimes these things can take a while to figure out. Different people formulate things in different ways and have different processes. I feel like let's just take a deep breath and not be so perfectionistic about it all.

  

  Sarah Jessica Parker
  • People
  • Different
  • Sometimes

• We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Different
  • Places
  • Sand