You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.
Octavia SpencerAs an actor, you don't become Meryl Streep by doing the same type of comedy. You get there by being challenged.
Octavia SpencerI'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes.
Octavia SpencerI 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.
Octavia Spencer