Octavia Spencer

It baffles me that everything is so homogenized, because the world isn't, and yet we continue to support things that are so incredibly milquetoast.

The mentality of how we treat one another needs to be examined - especially how we treat our men of color.

The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.

Style has replaced elegance. Before, I believed that style is something a person embodied. But now it's so easy to buy good style if you have the money.

When I do my makeup, it kind of helps me get into the character that I'm trying to portray.

I wasn't dyslexic, I was just very slow. I passed my time daydreaming.