American - Actress | May 25, 1970 -
The worst is when I know I'm going to have to cry in a scene.
Octavia Spencer
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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We always think that we're going to be young forever, and now when I wake up, I need to stretch, and I need to have my glass of water and be cognizant of what I'm doing with my body.
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My family supported me before any of this crazy notion of moving out to Hollywood and staking my claim. That support has never waned.
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There are fewer and fewer roles that I haven't done already, or archetypes that I haven't played, and to break out of that box, the most interesting stuff is television.
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The most I like about cooking is eating what someone else has cooked.
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The misperception about the South is that everybody is racist, and all black people are victims, that what was prevalent in the '60s is only relegated to the South.
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I'm definitely neurotic. I don't cross streets and stuff.
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Yes, you want to do studio movies, but I also want to grow as an actor, and an actress like me is not going to get roles where you grow and evolve in a studio film. It's just not gonna happen.
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Women drive box office.
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People want to see more diversity. That's why you have the Kevin Hart making $17 million dollars on a holiday weekend.
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