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.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

If you're going to go to an audition, you don't want to go in trying to force yourself into some archetype that has been thought up by a director and translated by a casting director.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.