I have tried every diet to lose weight. When you restrict yourself, you're setting yourself up for failure. - Octavia Spencer 1 Share Now -
It's been pretty effortless with Sensa because I am not thinking about how long do I need to do this. Usually, when you stop a diet program, you lose control again. But I don't need to stop what I'm doing. I'm eating everything that I like. Sensa just helps me keep it all in check. - Octavia Spencer 2 Share Now -
If a little black girl in Montgomery, Alabama, or some far-reaching region sees something that I do and aspires to do it one day with the knowledge that she can achieve it, then hey, my work is done. - Octavia Spencer 3 Share Now -
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 4 Share Now -
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. - Octavia Spencer 5 Share Now -
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 6 Share Now -
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 7 Share Now -
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. - Octavia Spencer 8 Share Now -
There is so much art can do to enlighten people, no matter what their views might be. If art can't go there or doesn't elevate the social consciousness in some way, then we are in peril. - Octavia Spencer 10 Share Now -
