Quotes from Sissy Spacek

My roots allow me to let go of the fear of failure.

I'm not very big. But I've got a big bark and a lot of heart.

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.

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.

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

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

I wanted to be Joni Mitchell.

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.

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.

There's nothing like not washing your teeth or washing your face or brushing your teeth in the morning.

For me, life is a bowl of cherries.

I don't take characters home with me.

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

I connect with just plain old everyday people. Human behavior fascinates me, the people who are the nuts and bolts of this country who help hold up the world.

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.

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.

I'm a fool for a good role in a creative piece where there are really such talented writers and wonderful actors.

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

The important thing is to be part of a good project with good, talented people.

You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them.

I've always been a people-watcher, and as an actor, later, I just mined all those little details.

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

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

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.