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.
Quotes to Explore
-
What really matters is what's on the inside.
-
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
-
I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially 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.
-
I think I'm a bit odd.
-
Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.
-
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-
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.
-
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.
-
If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick.
-
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
-
I am that weirdo that chooses the difficult route down the side of the street.
-
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.
-
People are going to get older and young guys are going to come in and race and get more competitive.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
-
My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
-
I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people's needs into account; you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.
-
I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.
-
It always helps me connect with characters, to think about what music they respond to.
-
If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.
-
You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.
-
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.
