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I didn't worry about leaving the fast lane - I was just so consumed with my baby that it seemed like the right thing to do. I never felt like I left New York, though. If you've lived in a place and loved it, you never feel like you left it.
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I had a dozen years to act before starting a family, then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.
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You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them.
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My cousin, Rip Torn, persuaded me not to change my name. You shouldn't change what you are in the search for success.
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There's a real danger in trying to stay king of the mountain. You stop taking risks, you stop being as creative, because you're trying to maintain a position. Apart from anything else that really takes the fun out of it.
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When I started out in independent films in the early '70s, we did everything for the love of art. It wasn't about money and stardom. That was what we were reacting against. You'd die before you'd be bought.
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I wanted to put all my family stories down for my girls, and I remember everything so vividly. I just wanted to put everything down while I still can remember it all.
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If I hadn't left Texas, I might not have met the director Terrence Malick, and I wouldn't have met my husband and I wouldn't have had the children that I've had. Life is interesting like that.
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You know, I don't know what the future will bring, but I'm ready for whatever comes!
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I lived an idyllic 'Huckleberry Finn' life in a tiny town. Climbing trees. Tagging after brothers. Happy. Barefoot on my pony. It was 'To Kill a Mockingbird'-esque.
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Most things in my life I had before leaving home. Values, support, great family. I was shaped at an early age. A musician playing guitar, I wanted to be a folk singer.
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My parents were devoted. Civic minded. We had family counsels. Three of us children against two of them. We lived a 'Leave It to Beaver' time.
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The name Sissy came because my brothers called me that.
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I've always been a people-watcher, and as an actor, later, I just mined all those little details.
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Texas is just so rich with characters. Women who live alone in a little house on a thousand acres with nothing but cattle and a pickup truck. And an airplane.
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I had no fear 'cause it seemed everyone in the audience always applauded whatever I did. Course, maybe it was because I always seemed to know everyone in the audience.
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Jingle taps on the majorette boots were an important part of a little girl growing up in the South.
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Our perception of celebrities in Hollywood is not the reality. The reality of our lives is so much like everyone else's life. We have family members we love, everyone gets up in the morning, they have three meals a day and they go about their business.
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Fame sweeps you away. I had to go home every six months to remember who I am.
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I've not had a mean life.
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I'm a fool for a good role in a creative piece where there are really such talented writers and wonderful actors.
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It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.
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There have been several television movies, 'Carrie 2,' two musicals! I remember thinking, the first time there was a musical on Broadway, 'Oh my gosh! The people who ordinarily go to the theaters, that's not really the audience.'
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I think that no human gets away unscathed in this old life. We've all experienced loss and grief and pain and tragedy.
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I love the women I've played.
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I connect with just plain old everyday people. Human behavior fascinates me, the people who are the nuts and bolts of this country who help hold up the world.
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I'm drawn to ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, which is a big part of the human condition.
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The important thing is to be part of a good project with good, talented people.
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For me, I never really wanted to be in a 'Sissy Spacek' vehicle. That was not my intention. I got to be the 'Everygirl.'
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I go where the good work is being done.
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