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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 Spencer

Octavia Spencer Art Respect Dreams

I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor'. And she said, 'Maybe not that'.

~ Octavia Spencer

Octavia Spencer Mom Acting Want

I have tried every diet to lose weight. When you restrict yourself, you're setting yourself up for failure.

~ Octavia Spencer

Octavia Spencer Yourself Diet You

You just keep moving forward and doing what you do and hope that it resonates with people. And if it doesn't, you just keep moving on until you find a project that does.

~ Octavia Spencer

Octavia Spencer Hope Moving Forward Moving

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

Octavia Spencer Women Little Girls Think

If you come out of the gate with a finger pointed, then you really aren't opening the door to any sort of resolution to whatever the problem may be. Whether it's about race or sexual orientation or religion, if you can't empathize with the opposing party, then you can't really meet in the middle.

~ Octavia Spencer

Octavia Spencer Door Problem Party

If a little black girl in Montgomery, Alabama, or some far-reaching region sees something that I do and aspires to do it one day with the knowledge that she can achieve it, then hey, my work is done.

~ Octavia Spencer

Octavia Spencer Work Day Girl

It's been pretty effortless with Sensa because I am not thinking about how long do I need to do this. Usually, when you stop a diet program, you lose control again. But I don't need to stop what I'm doing. I'm eating everything that I like. Sensa just helps me keep it all in check.

~ Octavia Spencer

Octavia Spencer I Am Thinking Me

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

Octavia Spencer Life Sad Unexpected

It may sound funny, but it's true: I tried to put myself through the 12-step program. I didn't want to attend a real meeting; my role didn't really require that, and I feel those meetings are sort of sacred, and they're anonymous for a reason. I tried to deal with some of my love of snacks - and I relapsed a lot.

~ Octavia Spencer

Octavia Spencer Love Myself Meetings

There is so much art can do to enlighten people, no matter what their views might be. If art can't go there or doesn't elevate the social consciousness in some way, then we are in peril.

~ Octavia Spencer

Octavia Spencer People Matter

My mom always told me I could do or be anything I dared to dream, and I always wanted to work in the movie industry.

~ Octavia Spencer

Octavia Spencer Work Dream Me

The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.

~ Octavia Spencer

Octavia Spencer Proactive Way Bring
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