A lot of what I do outside acting is really just for me.
Really think about the way you interact with people, whether it's in person or on the Internet. You have to be very mindful.
I feel it's so rare that young females are portrayed as being anything more than a stereotype.
Very good female characters, that's all we want. It's happening, slow and steady, which I love. Hopefully, it gets a little quicker. Fast and steady, how about that? Either way, we want more good females.
I don't like excessive violence. That's my thing. I don't like movies heavy with guns, any of that stuff, so I'm not into that stuff, but I love a psychological thriller.
Be kind to each other. You never know who's going to become the CEO of what. You never know who is going to become Taylor Swift. You never know.
You just got to be kind and stay true to yourself and follow what makes you happy inside.
I'm drawn to interesting female characters and good storylines.
When I was growing up, I wanted to be a tennis player.
I was like, 'I'm going to win Wimbledon!' I was crazy competitive, leg-slapping, all of that. But when I was 12, I saw 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape,' and it just opened my eyes to what movies can do and how they change us, and I was like, 'This is what I want to do. This is what I have to do.'
I feel like I'm 85 inside.
Contrary to popular belief, you don't make money as an actor in the beginning. Your publicist might cost $5000 a month, so you're losing money.
I really want to do something that is very, very deep within realism, like a 'Winter's Bone,' or a 'Blue Valentine.'
I'm like a 70-year-old man at heart.
My dad put me in a theater group camp at Santa Monica Playhouse when I was, like, six, and then I started to realize I really liked it when I was 11 or 12; it was nice to just escape.
Acting is kind of an escape. You get to live life as someone else, and when you're living this life as someone else, you don't really have time to think about your own life.
The boy I was crazy about was super into photography, so I weaseled my way into AP Photo to impress him and spend more time with him. He never liked me back, but I ended up spending most my senior year in the darkroom - it became a sort of safe haven for me.
Like everyone in high school, like everyone in life, we all have this outer layer we put up to protect ourselves.
When something tragic happens, all we want to do is escape it. Acting has always been kind of a twisted way of escaping my own problems and my own reality.
Octavia Spencer is, I think, one of the coolest people you will ever meet.
