“If more women ate, they would be a lot happier. Let me tell you, I am ...” — Octavia Spencer Quote

“If more women ate, they would be a lot happier. Let me tell you, I am a lot grumpier when I don't eat.”

“Being a part of a large family is just like a little society: those who fight to the top of the heap. We relied on each other and still do. They never discouraged me or told me to get a proper job.”

“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.”

“I like to read, even though it was really tough, because I could go anywhere in the world in a book, and I could have so many adventures in a book.”

“Every day that I live, I try to find the beauty in things.”

“Needless to say, I would have loved to have been a black belt instead of actually just wearing one to hold up my pants!”

“My first scene ever on camera was a dinner scene and I ate all the food. They yelled cut and the actor across from me was like, 'You know you're going to have to eat the same thing every single time.' I learned the hard way.”

“Mom was a nurse's aide. She worked in various hospitals. She took care of us that way, and we ate government cheese. I survived.”

“We were definitely not rich, but we were not poor. My mum always came home from work and did everything so that we ate well.”

“If I were overweight because I ate too much, I would have far more of a complex. I would know if I just stopped eating and showed a little discipline I would be thin. But there's not a hell of a lot I can do about being short. You just gotta run with it.”

“I used to not watch what I ate. I would just kind of eat whatever.”

“I was born in Toronto and studied with the National Ballet of Canada. I went to school to study dance, slept on the floor, ate nothing, waitressed - and then there was a Mary J. Blige audition.”