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.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a deep commitment to writing and acting as integral parts of life.
Octavia Spencer's quote reflects her unwavering passion for writing and acting, suggesting that these creative pursuits are not just hobbies but essential components of her identity. It conveys a sense of hope that she will always engage in these artistic endeavors, emphasizing their significance in her life and the importance of following one's passions.
In practice
This quote can be used to encourage aspiring writers at a workshop.
You have to get out of your comfort zone in order to grow. And as an actor, you don't become Meryl Streep by doing the same type of comedy. You get there by being challenged. And unfortunately, there's a lack of roles for women of color, so you actually have to be the engineer creating some of those roles.
There are so few roles out there. And even if it is a film that could be led by a black actress, how many times is that film going to get funded? Let's just be real. But it's not just black people. It's Asians, it's Hispanic people if you're not Salma Hayek. It's hard. It's hard to get films funded.
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.
You just keep moving forward and doing what you do and hope that it resonates with people. And if it doesn't, you just keep moving on until you find a project that does.
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.
If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.
I write as if to save somebodyβs life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.
I sort of recognize it, as opposed to shaping it. Oh, that's a good idea, that's a good line. I wonder where I can use that. And when you get into a rhyme group like 'not,' you got a lot of rhymes, you got a lot of choices. The more you do it, the luckier you get.
I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It employs archetypes which, as Jung warned us, are dangerous things. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.
I deeply wished I could make the stars all come down and breathe them; disappear in them
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