Sissy Spacek Quotes

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Sissy Spacek

Profession : Actress

Birth : December 25, 1949

That's what I love about acting and love and drama and art: that humanness we all share.

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We like to believe we are in control of our destinies, even though we never are and we never have been.

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I feel like if I don't get a film and somebody else does, then that film never belonged to me. The ones I get belong to me.

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Oftentimes you read scripts, and you get to one and you think, 'OK, is this good, or is this just better than all the other ones that I have been reading?'

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Rarely in film acting do you get to do a scene for very long.

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Nature is really big and loud the farther south you get.

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I used to play softball every summer back in Quitman. My two brothers demanded I be tough. There were certain girls they wouldn't let me invite over because they were too feminine and fragile.

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Nothing in life prepared me for the way I felt about being a mother. Until then, I sort of felt like a blank sheet of paper. I was always trying to second-guess myself, to be what others wanted me to be.

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When I was a little kid, I used to spend a lot of time thinking about what I'd wish for if a magic fairy gave me three wishes. First, I wanted to be loved. Then, I wanted to be beautiful. And, finally, I'd wish for a million more wishes.

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In every movie, there's always some physical thing that triggers the character for me. In 'The Long Walk Home,' it was the girdle. Every time I'd put that girdle on, I'd feel my character wiggle to life.

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Hollywood is like a piranha. They don't give you breathing room. You don't have time to let your career breathe.

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When I first met David Lynch, he was living in the stables of the American Film Institute... He'd work all night and have his crew lock him in during the day, and he'd sleep.

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There are classic horror films that, if you are a human being in this world, you have to have seen. They've become a part of our culture.

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I studied homeopathy for years and years. Herbs and all kinds of acupuncture, acupressure, alternative medicine. I think it's just better to treat the whole person.

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Hollywood is a film industry, a film business. I don't approach my career in that way. I see it as 'art,' and I become involved in films that ring my bell.

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I just make films that attract me.

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I like to do films that I would want to go see, basically. I'm not out to make a fast buck.

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With my coloring, I'm nothing in black and white. I've seen my films sometimes on black-and-white TV. Disaster.

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Our life is our life. If we waste it, we're fools.

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You need to live life to be able to have something to draw from.

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