You never write a speech in advance because if you don't get to use it, you'll be heartbroken.
Octavia SpencerI 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.
Octavia SpencerIt 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.
Octavia SpencerI can only be the best version of myself and understand that the only way that we as a people can heal is to understand that the next person's journey may not be your own, but it doesn't mean that you have to marginalize them in any way.
Octavia SpencerI hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the typical Hollywood beauty.
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