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“ 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. ”

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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

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

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

~ Octavia Spencer

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