I’m excited that I get to do what I love, and I’m benefiting through projects that speak to me. Octavia Spencer Read Quote
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. Octavia Spencer Read Quote
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. Octavia Spencer Read Quote
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. Octavia Spencer Read Quote
Life is too short, and I need to eat. I am my meanest when I haven’t had a meal. Octavia Spencer Read Quote
My family supported me before any of this crazy notion of moving out to Hollywood and staking my claim. That support has never waned. Octavia Spencer Read Quote
There are fewer and fewer roles that I haven’t done already, or archetypes that I haven’t played, and to break out of that box, the most interesting stuff is television. Octavia Spencer Read Quote
The misperception about the South is that everybody is racist, and all black people are victims, that what was prevalent in the ’60s is only relegated to the South. Octavia Spencer Read Quote
The statement that I made and that I think I will continue to make is that racism and bigotry isn’t just relegated to the Southern region; it permeates the history of our nation. It’s not to say that we haven’t made progress. Obviously we have with our first African American president, and I never thought that would happen in my lifetime. Octavia Spencer Read Quote
