Octavia Spencer

I'm dyslexic, and it takes me longer to memorize and to embody the character so I can really own it.

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.

I'd be all for everybody keeping their sidearms if they're in the military and on a military installation. That's something we need to get back to.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.