Quotes from Sissy Spacek

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.

You shouldn't change what you are in the search for success.

You know, your career is just your career; your life is your life!

Nature is my church. The wind in the trees and the bugs and the frogs. All those things are comfort to me.

One day, it just dawned on me that I'm from Texas, and that's what I am.

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.

When I lived in New York City, I loved it so much. But every six months, I had to go home to Texas to remember who I was. Get filled back up.

Texas is so big, and the place where I grew up was so little, and I was such a little thing growing up in the middle of it. I had two choices: I could either spend my life feeling insignificant, or I could look on the life I lived as a microcosm of the universe.

There have been several television movies, 'Carrie 2,' two musicals! I remember thinking, the first time there was a musical on Broadway, 'Oh my gosh! The people who ordinarily go to the theaters, that's not really the audience.'

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.

I've not had a mean life.

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.

I'm a flower gardener.

My father's family is German and Czech.

I think giving up people is a difficult thing.

Fame sweeps you away. I had to go home every six months to remember who I am.

I go where the good work is being done.

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.

I am a woman of simple tastes.

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

I need to fill myself up with real life. That's kind of the well I draw from.

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

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

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