Octavia Spencer Quotes

If a great role comes along, and you are too tall to play it, then I think the role is too small for your talents.

Octavia Spencer

• Great
• Think
• Small

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• What really matters is what's on the inside.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Really
  • Inside
  • Matters

• He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Heart
  • Help
  • Right

• I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Play
  • Language
  • Silent

• I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I think I'm a bit odd.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Odd

• Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Street
  • Trees
  • Other

• Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.

  

  Mae West
  • Never
  • Two
  • Take

• The most amazing set where I've shot 'Game of Thrones' is definitely Croatia, in Dubrovnik. It's such a stunning country with lots of good watersports there as well. Just a beautiful, beautiful place.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Good
  • Country
  • Game

• Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.

  

  Adam Braun
  • People
  • Long
  • High

• If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • You
  • Sick
  • Milk

• English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

  

  E. B. White
  • Education
  • Sometimes
  • English

• I am that weirdo that chooses the difficult route down the side of the street.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Street
  • Route
  • Weirdo

• I would go visit my mom on Sundays, and my brother was working on stuff. I'd go in there and sing a little melody, then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Trying
  • Words
  • Mom

• People are going to get older and young guys are going to come in and race and get more competitive.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • People
  • Young
  • Race

• I have a long-standing interest in what I like to think of as 'forbidden knowledge:' methods of unarmed killing, lock picking, breaking and entry, spy stuff, and other things that the government wants only a few select individuals to know.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Long
  • Knowledge
  • Know

• In September 2005, I was three things: the media blogger for 'FishbowlNY,' a maniacal Daily Show fan, and the only person to smuggle a tape recorder and camera into a big Magazine Publishers of America event featuring Jon Stewart interviewing five hotshot magazine editors in an unbelievable bloodbath.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • America
  • Daily
  • Media

• I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Up
  • Family
  • Faith

• My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Family
  • Alone
  • Relatives

• Using a typewriter, at times, feels more like playing piano than jotting down notes, a percussive exercise in expressing thought that is both tortuous and rewarding.

  

  Mary Pilon
  • Exercise

• I really don't like when you see improv scenes go on too long. It really bothers me, even if the jokes are good.

  

  Jonathan Levine
  • Good
  • Long

• I eat plants. I eat lean meat. I work out.

  

  Jake Arrieta
  • Work

• My whole thing was, as much as I was inspired by what my parents do, and growing up on film sets, watching that made me really want to do that. I am my own person, and I think that the only thing with the Hemingway name is that it has gotten me in the door.

  

  Dree Hemingway
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Growing

• I knew what type of player I was: a free agent, a small kid who came from a small school.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • School
  • Free
  • Small

• If a great role comes along, and you are too tall to play it, then I think the role is too small for your talents.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Great
  • Think
  • Small