Sissy Spacek
With my coloring, I'm nothing in black and white. I've seen my films sometimes on black-and-white TV. Disaster.
Our life is our life. If we waste it, we're fools.
Hollywood's fickle. It's always been that way, and it will always be that way. And it's always going to be somebody new and exciting comes along. That's just the way it works, and it will always work that way. And I think that if you give it everything to the exclusion of your own real life and family, you've sold yourself down the river.
I live a very wonderful life centered in my home and community. We're real involved with the school.
I got an automatic breadmaker. It's the greatest! I get more points for that. You computerize in the results you want, and it's no fail. I'm a modern homemaker.
Celebrity status for me came slowly. I wasn't an overnight sensation. I had time to prepare emotionally.
I'm a flower gardener.
I swore to my parents that no one would ever be able to buy me.
I follow the roles.
I think that we all fantasize about that teeny tiny time in the film industry when women ruled, back in the '40s.
There are fewer roles, and I've done so many things already that I don't want to repeat, so to find something you haven't done is harder. I don't want to play a country singer again.
There's kind of a time you get warned about where the rug gets pulled out from under you: beyond ingenue, before you get into character stuff.
I've done some of my best work in films that fell right through the cracks, so I try to not make career moves but to build a body of work.
You get angry and frustrated wondering, 'Are there enough parts for women?'
I think the thread running through most midwives is the passion.
I'm not paralyzed with fear, but I realize it is important to live as if there's no tomorrow, always trying to maintain your integrity and have no regrets.
The business has been good to me.
If you live only a movie-star life, you know only movie-star things. I needed to live a regular life with normal people around.
What's normal? I think I'm normal... Maybe I'm abnormal because I get such a thrill from real life, just real life, everyday things.
I loved growing up in a little town. I loved knowing people. I loved going to the store and running into people. I loved going into the store and having forgotten my bag, saying, 'Charge it, put it on my bill.' I loved going to the gas station and saying, 'Pete, fill it up.' I loved that continuity of life.
You shouldn't change what you are in the search for success.Collection: Writing
I listened to that voice inside me-... Everyone has an inner voice; you just have to listen to it and trust it in order to be led by it. I did that, and it gave me the ability to live a life that's true to who I am and what I really wanted.Collection: Who I Am
I was always proud about being from Texas and, you know, maybe that was part of fearlessness. I love the fact that Texas is so big, but you don't feel small because of that.Collection: Texas
When I'm pushing myself, testing myself, that's when I'm happiest. That's when the rewards are greatest.Collection: Rewards
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.Collection: Art
I may be ignorant but I ain't stupid!Collection: Stupid
You know, your career is just your career; your life is your life!Collection: Careers
You know, I don’t know what the future will bring, but I’m ready for whatever comes!Collection: Ready
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.Collection: Children
You relate to a character and you find that character within yourself. It's all parts of me. I don't leave characters behind. I just let them go.Collection: Character
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.Collection: Motherhood
Banana Splits for Breakfast. I think I ate about five.Collection: Thinking
But you finally think, there is what there is, and you have to work within those confines and just keep chipping away at your own work.Collection: Thinking
A great screenplay is the most powerful bait in Hollywood.Collection: Powerful
I don't take characters home with me.Collection: Home