Sissy Spacek Quotes

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Sissy Spacek

Profession : Actress

Birth : December 25, 1949

Jingle taps on the majorette boots were an important part of a little girl growing up in the South.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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