Sissy Spacek Quotes

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Sissy Spacek

Profession : Actress

Birth : December 25, 1949

I've been into exercise my whole life, been a runner and been into health and fitness always.

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Nature is my church. The wind in the trees and the bugs and the frogs. All those things are comfort to me.

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For me, life is a bowl of cherries.

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I wanted to be Joni Mitchell.

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I think giving up people is a difficult thing.

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I don't have any regrets, because I think life is like a creek. It kind of meanders along, and you instinctively do the things you are meant to do. There's no great plan except doing really good scripts, meeting great filmmakers. And I have to have something that I can bring to the role.

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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 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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Everybody who loves me calls me Sissy, so I guess that's just who I am. When I'm 80, they'll still be calling me Sissy. Oh, well, I guess there are worse things.

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My daughter is far more talented than me in the songwriting department - far more.

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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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It's not seeing myself 40 feet tall on a movie screen - it's the work. That's what thrills me.

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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.

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I love a lot of the '70s musicians, like Bonnie Raitt. And I love Sheryl Crow. But probably my favorite musician is a woman by the name of Schuyler Fisk.

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I am a woman of simple tastes.

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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 biggest thrill in life is to read in the afternoon until I fall asleep and take a nap.

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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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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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I go where the good work is being done.

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