Octavia Spencer Quotes

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.

Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.

If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.

I am guilty of one thing - that I should have cleared out and not had anything to do with these criminals in the first place. Later it was too late. I was in up to my neck. But as for the atrocities, I had not a thing to do with them…

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

I was debauched in my 20s, but I was fit and healthy in my teens.

You'll be scandalized in the morning when you can think again.

It's fun to be debaucherous and the worst version of yourself.

I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing and eating aspirin and cursing harlots. Every time I see that glass I think of you trying to clean your conscience with a toothbrush.

It's a fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning.

He that is in haste may contract much guilt in a little time. What we say or do unadvisedly when we are hot, we must unsay or undo again when we are cool, or do worse.

You can have your cake and eat it. But my God, it will go rotten inside you.

I wanna be drunk when I wake up, on the right side of the wrong bed.

When there is pleasure, there is often abandon, and mistakes are made.

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

I've been a bad, bad girl - I've been careless with a delicate man.

A boy sent by his father to steal does not go stealthily but breaks the door with his feet.

To have lied is to have suffered.

Oh man sometimes I wake up feel like a cat runover. Are you familiar with the stoical aspects of hard drinking, of heavy drinking? Oh it's heavy. Oh it's hard. It isn't easy. Jesus, I never meant me any harm. All I wanted was a good time.

It was very nerve-wracking for me. I had to be drunk and have a threesome. I'm not that guy. Bobby Cannavale is that guy. But it was Vegas and things got crazy, and it happened. We go to Vegas to try to sign Elvis Presley and things get crazy. My character [in Vinyl] is stoned.

You can't blame anyone else... You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices. He knew this. That's why he deserted us like we deserted those civilians. He saw the road ahead, a steep, treacherous mountain road. We'd all have to hike that road, each of us dragging the boulder of what we'd done behind us. He couldn't do it. He couldn't shoulder the weight." - Philip Adler