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.
-
We always think that we're going to be young forever, and now when I wake up, I need to stretch, and I need to have my glass of water and be cognizant of what I'm doing with my body.
-
My idea of success is not Oscars. Am I glad I have that little trinket? Yes, I am. But it depends on how you define success. The minute I got my first professional cheque from Joel Schumacher, I was successful. Somebody's paying me to act!
-
The fact that women are very young in obtaining their civil rights and African-Americans are young in obtaining their civil rights, I think it's about time that we extend that to all Americans, whether straight, gay, purple, green, black, brown.
-
I don't think you learn as much about yourself when you are moving forwards as when you have fallen backwards. That's when you really learn who you are. And reach for the things that have propelled you forward and made you a better person.
-
I probably wanted to be Pam Grier growing up.
-
Yes, you want to do studio movies, but I also want to grow as an actor, and an actress like me is not going to get roles where you grow and evolve in a studio film. It's just not gonna happen.
-
I gravitate to whatever looks good on me and whatever maakes me feel sexy.
-
I think diversity is something that should be celebrated because it's who we are as a world, and little kids need to be able to turn on the TV and see real-world representations of themselves. It's very important.
-
The thing about the South is we accept our history. We don't push it under the rug.
-
If you come out of the gate with a finger pointed, then you really aren't opening the door to any sort of resolution to whatever the problem may be. Whether it's about race or sexual orientation or religion, if you can't empathize with the opposing party, then you can't really meet in the middle.
-
The most I like about cooking is eating what someone else has cooked.
-
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.
-
My weight has always been a struggle for me.
-
Be happy in your own skin.
-
My mom always told me I could do or be anything I dared to dream, and I always wanted to work in the movie industry.
-
I was a production assistant. I saw what people who are full of themselves are like - another reason not to lose your humility! I have a mouth on me so I wasn't the best P.A.
-
Life is too short, and I need to eat. I am my meanest when I haven't had a meal.
-
I've seen too many sunrises, as far as the walk of shame, staying out too late doing very bad things.
-
It was never easy being Cicely Tyson. And it will not be easy being Octavia or Viola Davis.
-
I like to read, even though it was really tough, because I could go anywhere in the world in a book, and I could have so many adventures in a book.
-
The reality is that there are so few roles out there for women and for women of color, and I'm a character actor, this I know. And I'm getting to see more of the roles that are out there, but there aren't many. And zilch have been studio movies. Zilch.
-
You have to create your own path and I'm up to the challenge.
-
You can't be from Montgomery, Alabama, and not have a background in the church. It's at the core of who we are as a people.