Explore Quotes by Octavia Spencer

I'm thrilled I got to work with James Ponsoldt, who is going to make his mark on this industry.

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 don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.

If more women ate, they would be a lot happier. Let me tell you, I am a lot grumpier when I don't eat.

I feel for the overly thin women as I do for the overweight women.

If you are unhealthy, start by making small changes to become healthier. You are unique, beautiful, and worthy.

I gravitate to whatever looks good on me and whatever maakes me feel sexy.

I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.

The worst is when I know I'm going to have to cry in a scene.

The thing about the South is we accept our history. We don't push it under the rug.

I have to lead a very small life in terms of what people think 'Hollywood' is. It's a full life for me, but I'm not jetting across the world. But life is good.

Your parents only want what's best for you. They know a career in the arts usually means living paycheck to paycheck; they just want you to know that you have other options!

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.

I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.

I want to see more Asian. I want to see more Latin. I want more Indian. There's more than Mindy Kaling out there, guys! There's more than Bai Ling.

If a little black girl in Montgomery, Alabama, or some far-reaching region sees something that I do and aspires to do it one day with the knowledge that she can achieve it, then hey, my work is done.

There is so much art can do to enlighten people, no matter what their views might be. If art can't go there or doesn't elevate the social consciousness in some way, then we are in peril.

No person is just one particular emotion.

I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television.

It baffles me that everything is so homogenized, because the world isn't, and yet we continue to support things that are so incredibly milquetoast.

Will Smith would not be Worldwide Will Smith if he had not insisted on going worldwide and touring with his films. You have to build that audience for people and allow for it to happen.