I am not trying to conform to an unrealistic model of beauty. I am, however, being proactive in being the healthiest I can be.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the importance of personal health over societal beauty standards.
Octavia Spencer emphasizes the significance of prioritizing one's health and well-being rather than striving to meet unrealistic societal standards of beauty. The quote promotes a proactive approach to health, suggesting that true beauty comes from being healthy and confident in oneself, rather than conforming to external pressures.
In practice
Using this quote during a health and wellness seminar to inspire self-acceptance.
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.
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.
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 think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.
You just keep moving forward and doing what you do and hope that it resonates with people. And if it doesn't, you just keep moving on until you find a project that does.
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.
The steep price tag of cancer treatment needs to continue to be a part of the national conversation, not just the patient-doctor one.
I stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed... so drastically, I couldn't believe it myself.
We didn't exist. Ronald Reagan didn't say the word 'AIDS' until 1987. I've tried desperately to get a meeting in the White House; Gay Men's Health Crisis is already an established organization. I have a certain presence.
I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven't heard of anyone who's got better from Alzheimer's.
It's not that diabetes, heart disease, and obesity runs in your family...It's that no one runs in you family!
It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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