Quote

I 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 Spencer

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Octavia Spencer
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: May 25
Actor
Actress
Film Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Montgomery
Alabama
Octavia Lenora Spencer
Octavia L. Spencer
Mean
Journey
Way
Understand
People
Next
Doesn
May
Marginalize
Persons
Version
Best
Versions
Person
Heal

More quotes by Octavia Spencer

Image
You can't be from Montgomery, Alabama, and not have a background in the church. It's at the core of who we are as a people.
Octavia Spencer
Image
Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.
Octavia Spencer
Image
If you go through life and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.
Octavia Spencer
Image
I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse.
Octavia Spencer
Image
I hate to tell people what they should think 'cause I really have an aversion when people tell me what to think.
Octavia Spencer
Image
I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
Octavia Spencer
Image
I want to find things that challenge me.
Octavia Spencer
Image
Where I'm from, you learned about God before you learned to read and write. Our faith is what grounds us.
Octavia Spencer
Image
I'm not trying to be a different weight. I want to be a different body type so that I'm not an apple. I just want to be a pear!
Octavia Spencer
Image
I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.
Octavia Spencer
Image
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.
Octavia Spencer
Image
I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.
Octavia Spencer
Image
I do believe that everyone has something to contribute.
Octavia Spencer
Image
You have to create your own path and I'm up to the challenge.
Octavia Spencer
Image
Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.
Octavia Spencer
Image
My faith is tested daily.
Octavia Spencer
Image
I really believe things happen as they're supposed to and in the time that they're supposed to.
Octavia Spencer
Image
As an actor, I've learned to become a detective. You have to figure out who that person is. If the character is a thief, you have to figure out what makes them a thief. Whatever the prevailing idiosyncrasy is, I have to find it in the script.
Octavia Spencer
Image
For 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 Spencer
Image
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.
Octavia Spencer