176 Quotes by Octavia Spencer

I gotta go home and feed my eels. They’re not electric, but I have a plan.

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.

One thing I’ve learned is be comfortable in your skin, and more importantly, be comfortable in your shoes.

I’m starstruck everyday. The day I’m not starstruck, I’ll have to retire.

Weight issues, race issues will always be there and if you allow them to get to you and you allow them to affect you then yes they affect you. But my thing is I have so many other things to worry about I can’t worry about other people’s perception of me.

I didn’t realize that diets don’t work, and I did not want to diet. I didn’t want to do anything that required dieting.

The one thing that I realize – well, not the one thing, but it was a big thing – having in my head that I need to get healthier. It’s been a very gradual process for me.

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.

Christian Louboutin, I love you, but honey, please! But when you have this much weight, you’ve got to give us a little platform. Sorry! The shoes are stunning though. An ounce of pain, it’s worth it.