Octavia Spencer Quotes - Page 3

You know, bigotry isn't relevant to just the South. It never was. But I'm very grateful that I don't know what it's like from experience.

I think it's actually a misperception that I am a comedic actress. I do more drama than comedy but very little of it has been seen. When you are in big funny movies and they do well and your little part in it kind of explodes people perceive you as a comedian.

If you go through life and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.

I really believe things happen as they're supposed to and in the time that they're supposed to.

I look for roles that resonate with me these days. While I love putting out just fabulous entertainment, I think now as artists, especially with so much uncertainty going on in the world, you want to be a part of things that offer or promote healing in some way and perhaps a little introspection once you leave.

What's not fair is having the responsibility of a supervisor but not the title or the pay.

We know longer live in a homogenous society, it is not black, white, Asian or Latin, it is a melting pot. Until we learn to assimilate and learn about other cultures, we will continue to have racism problems. Of course, there are other '-isms' as our ills. We have sexism, ageism, elitism, homophobia-ism, there are many -isms we have to overcome.

It is important to learn as much as you can about the person and then throw it all away so that you're not in any way doing some sort of mimicry.

My job as an artist is to present the material. My job as a woman is to receive from it what I need.

People who are overweight face discrimination. African-Americans face discrimination. Women face discrimination and sexism. So I don't have the luxury of not being tolerant of anyone.

I want to find things that challenge me.

Even in my music, I am always searching for big, universal things - ways that you can sort of reach outside the norm of what you are doing.

I want to see more women behind the scenes.

There is one thing about knowing history, and another in recreating it.

It's very seldom that we see the good of the South. There is a perception that Southerners are racists and everyone else in the nation is 'enlightened.' There is racism everywhere, and there is good everywhere.

Any upward movement is movement for us all.

I want to see more women as producers.

I'm starstruck everyday. The day I'm not starstruck, I'll have to retire.

Every character I get to play has some element of who I am, but there's no fun in playing yourself. At least, for me, there isn't.

I'm an actor and I am looking for roles where I can continue to evolve, and things that are challenging. 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.

I was starstruck and sweat a lot when I met Oprah Winfrey and tried to hug her. Because when you think you know people when you see them from your couch.

You never write a speech in advance because if you don't get to use it, you'll be heartbroken.

I didn't realize that diets don't work, and I did not want to diet. I didn't want to do anything that required dieting.

The one thing that I realize - well, not the one thing, but it was a big thing - having in my head that I need to get healthier. It's been a very gradual process for me.

I like a person who knows how to say something dark at a very dark moment. The darker the moment and the darker the comic, the better. Something that is so wrong on all levels.