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" 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. "

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" Do I feel that white directors have to tell only white stories? No. Do I feel that black filmmakers should only tell stories about black people? No. If we say that, then that means Asian people cannot write about anybody but Asians. I don't think a woman should only write about women. "

Octavia Spencer

Black

People

Think

" Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in. "

" Life is too short, and I need to eat. I am my meanest when I haven't had a meal. "

Octavia Spencer

I Am

Short

" What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life. "

Octavia Spencer

Childhood

Film

" My hat's off to Shonda Rhimes. "

Octavia Spencer

Hat

Off

" If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence. "

Octavia Spencer

Unexpected

Sad

" I feel for the overly thin women as I do for the overweight women. "

" Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright. "

Octavia Spencer

Stage Fright

Time

" There are so few roles out there. And even if it is a film that could be led by a black actress, how many times is that film going to get funded? Let's just be real. But it's not just black people. It's Asians, it's Hispanic people if you're not Salma Hayek. It's hard. It's hard to get films funded. "

" I am not trying to conform to an unrealistic model of beauty. I am, however, being proactive in being the healthiest I can be. "

" 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. "

" You have to get out of your comfort zone in order to grow. And as an actor, you don't become Meryl Streep by doing the same type of comedy. You get there by being challenged. And unfortunately, there's a lack of roles for women of color, so you actually have to be the engineer creating some of those roles. "

" The fact that women are very young in obtaining their civil rights and African-Americans are young in obtaining their civil rights, I think it's about time that we extend that to all Americans, whether straight, gay, purple, green, black, brown. "

" When we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand. "

Octavia Spencer

Acting

Hand

" My life is exactly the way it needs to be. "

" 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. "

Octavia Spencer

You

Movies

" Will Smith would not be Worldwide Will Smith if he had not insisted on going worldwide and touring with his films. You have to build that audience for people and allow for it to happen. "

" People want to see something that isn't necessarily somebody walking around in a superhero costume. "

" My weight has always been a struggle for me. "

Octavia Spencer

Always

Weight

" I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television. "

Octavia Spencer

Fact

Television

" I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act. "

" I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger. "

" I literally don't think about Oscar. "

" I don't have one role that I want to play. I guess... I want to be a producer. I want to be an activist. I want to be proactive in bringing about work for men, women, boys, girls, everybody who is good at what they do and deserve a shot at it. "

" I have to lead a very small life in terms of what people think 'Hollywood' is. It's a full life for me, but I'm not jetting across the world. But life is good. "

" I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite. "

" I want to see more Asian. I want to see more Latin. I want more Indian. There's more than Mindy Kaling out there, guys! There's more than Bai Ling. "

" I have a great team at WME. "

" I'm thrilled I got to work with James Ponsoldt, who is going to make his mark on this industry. "

" The thing about the South is we accept our history. We don't push it under the rug. "