Octavia Spencer Quotes

I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.

The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product.

What's sometimes really overwhelming in Sweden is the uniformity. People kind of disappear by all looking the same and wearing the same clothes. There are a lot of great individuals, but it can become a very blank and bleak picture.

TV has made everyone so vanilla it's nearly impossible to tell one anchor apart from another.

So many people want to have this typical look and this typical everything and it's all the same everywhere.

The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea.

I think in reality, today, if you use the same tools as everyone else, you kind of build the same products.

Nobody's unique. Everybody copies off of each other. Everybody wears the same type of stuff. Nobody's an individual anymore.

Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black or rich, anymore. We all want the same. Individually, we are nothing.

Efficiency obliterates identity

If everything is the same, nothing is special.

One of the shocking things when I go back to Canada is they cut off the tall trees - it's sort of like everyone's the same. Everyone's going to be the same, we're all okay. Just the, sort of, cultural, 'We're all okay.'

You can drain the life and nuances and complexity out of things by homogenizing them to make everything harmoniously dull, flat, conflict-free, strife-free.

I do everything that everybody else does.

There are two ways to make a person feel homeless—one is to destroy his home and the other is to make his home look and feel like everybody else’s home.

Country has become too homogenized and too commercial. It has lost what makes it special. It's great that it's popular, but then it starts to become watered down.

I'm from Long Island, which is a very cookie-cutter place.

If we all dress alike, we might as well all work in cubicles.

Places have their own characters. . . . But the people begin to look the same.

There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or what I like to call making muffins of us, muffins all like every other muffin in the muffin tin. This is the limited universe, the drying dissipating universe that we can help our children to avoid by providing them with ‘explosive material capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly'.

We're all getting lashed to the great wheel of uniformity.

Americans continue to rapidly homogenize ourselves into a neutered oblivion. For a country founded on the protection of the unique, we relish our sameness.

We were creating a world where the smartest way to survive is to be bland.

L.A. is... I always feel sort of abducted when I'm there, like I've stepped onto another planet where everyone looks the same.

I think if everyone looked the same, it would be a bit boring.