Zitat des Tages von Sissy Spacek:
Rarely in film acting do you get to do a scene for very long.
I go where the good work is being done.
I like horseback riding. I like to hike. I play guitar and sing.
For a while, I just sang at a steakhouse. I would go from table to table and really just survived on tips.
The business has been good to me.
My biggest thrill in life is to read in the afternoon until I fall asleep and take a nap.
The important thing is to be part of a good project with good, talented people.
It's difficult to just let go of a character. Especially after you've been preparing and researching for weeks.
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.
For me, I never really wanted to be in a 'Sissy Spacek' vehicle. That was not my intention. I got to be the 'Everygirl.'
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.
I just make films that attract me.
I actually never got in a play in school. My teacher said I never learned my lines.
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.
There is a long tradition of pungent living in the South. It was wonderful to have that imprinted on me so early in life. I already had my core when I left my little town in Texas.
There are stories you can tell on TV that can't be told in movies anymore.
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'm drawn to ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, which is a big part of the human condition.
Music is my thing. In fact, that's what I wanted to do. I thought of myself as a musician. I had never thought about acting.
Just about every town in Texas has a beauty pageant. Ours was called The Dogwood Fiesta. I was in one of those. I played the guitar and sang - and lost.
I think the movie business, you meet people, and you work intensely with them, and you have these relationships - there's an intimacy to it and a familiarity to the relationship because you're having to let go of all your barriers so you can let people in and work with them.
I think the thread running through most midwives is the passion.
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.
That was the magical thing about the Seventies: artists ruled. Because films were relatively low-budget, nobody cared. We could just go off and work.
I've been into exercise my whole life, been a runner and been into health and fitness always.
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.
I'm a fool for a brilliant filmmaker. And for someone who wants to try new things.
Nature is my church. The wind in the trees and the bugs and the frogs. All those things are comfort to me.
Nature is really big and loud the farther south you get.
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.
If somebody wants to think of me as a movie star, that's fine, that's great. It sort of makes me giggle.
Hollywood is like a piranha. They don't give you breathing room. You don't have time to let your career breathe.
You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them.
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.
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.