I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes.
Octavia SpencerWhere I'm from, you learned about God before you learned to read and write. Our faith is what grounds us.
Octavia SpencerFor me, when you have to prepare to play God, and then walking away from that, you realize just how tough God's job is. I don't want that job.
Octavia SpencerBecause we all come from different circumstances, our life experiences really color how we view things.
Octavia SpencerWhat's not fair is having the responsibility of a supervisor but not the title or the pay.
Octavia SpencerAt 21, you can live life with reckless abandon, as reckless as your abandon is. Then, at 30, there's something there are the supposed to be's. You're like, "I'm supposed to be doing this. I'm supposed to be doing that." You start measuring your life by what you think you're supposed to be doing. Having recently turned 40, it's like, "What the hell?! Why am I worried about what I'm supposed to be doing? What do I want to do?" You become fine with wherever the road takes you.
Octavia Spencer