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Octavia Spencer Quotes

If a great role comes along, and you are too tall to play it, then I think the role is too small for your talents.

Octavia Spencer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: May 25, 1970

Topics

Great Small Think You Play Tall

Fiction writers tend to err either making people more than they are or less than they are. I'd rather err on the side of the former.

People More Fiction Side Rather Err

I don't want to be no more than what I am.

I Am Want More Than Am

If I wrote in Jacob Riis' time, I'd be writing about teeming slums in our cities and kids dying of tuberculosis or outhouses in Philadelphia or kids losing their toes because they were living in homes without heat. He took on a battle in 'The Battle with the Slums' - and we won.

Matthew Desmond

Time Losing Writing Battle Living

Food is important for me, but as a restaurant group, to expand, you know, we have to look where the best market are - where the best markets are.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Food Best Me Restaurant You Look

I'm not the kind that could lead the millionaire lifestyle. I've got a truck, and I've got my bike. I've got a lovely Labrador and two kitty-cats. I live very modestly.

Sophie B. Hawkins

Live Bike Truck Lifestyle Kind Lead

Whenever I go to any particular event, people are shocked that I'm a fighter. To be a fighter, I have to look a certain way, and to be an actress, I have to look a certain way. I have to change that; I've joined acting to do meaningful cinema and to show that there is much more than glamour that actresses can offer.

Change People Look Cinema Acting Go

I really believe in challenging myself, pushing myself to new places.

Jonathan Evison

Myself Believe New Places New Places

The form of computers has never been important, with speed and performance being the only things that mattered.

Performance Computers Speed Important

I had the poster of 'Hairspray' right above my bed. And I had the biggest crush on Zac Efron, of course.

Bed Right Crush Above Course Had

Coming from League One, a lot of tackles go in, and that is where I've learned my trade.

Go Coming Where Trade Learned Lot

Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can say the most horrible things and it's not offensive, it's funny?

Christopher Walken

Funny People Say Why Some People

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.

Love Words Joy Writing Speak Loved

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