Sissy Spacek Quotes

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Sissy Spacek

Profession : Actress

Birth : December 25, 1949

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.

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I live a very wonderful life centered in my home and community. We're real involved with the school.

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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.

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Celebrity status for me came slowly. I wasn't an overnight sensation. I had time to prepare emotionally.

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I'm a flower gardener.

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I hated country music growing up, but it gets in your bone marrow, kind of like a disease.

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I swore to my parents that no one would ever be able to buy me.

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I follow the roles.

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I think that we all fantasize about that teeny tiny time in the film industry when women ruled, back in the '40s.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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You get angry and frustrated wondering, 'Are there enough parts for women?'

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I think the thread running through most midwives is the passion.

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The business has been good to me.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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If somebody wants to think of me as a movie star, that's fine, that's great. It sort of makes me giggle.

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Junior and senior high school years were not a good time.

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