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All Quotes by author - Sissy Spacek
" Celebrity status for me came slowly. I wasn't an overnight sensation. I had time to prepare emotionally. "
" Everybody who loves me calls me Sissy, so I guess that's just who I am. When I'm 80, they'll still be calling me Sissy. Oh, well, I guess there are worse things. "
" Fame sweeps you away. I had to go home every six months to remember who I am. "
" Film is an amazing art form, but so is life. When your career and your life can work together, and one can support the other, it's just great. "
" For a while, I just sang at a steakhouse. I would go from table to table and really just survived on tips. "
" For me, I never really wanted to be in a 'Sissy Spacek' vehicle. That was not my intention. I got to be the 'Everygirl.' "
" For me, life is a bowl of cherries. "
" 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. "
" Hollywood is like a piranha. They don't give you breathing room. You don't have time to let your career breathe. "
" 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. "
" I actually never got in a play in school. My teacher said I never learned my lines. "
" I am a woman of simple tastes. "
" 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 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. "
" I don't have any regrets, because I think life is like a creek. It kind of meanders along, and you instinctively do the things you are meant to do. There's no great plan except doing really good scripts, meeting great filmmakers. And I have to have something that I can bring to the role. "
" I don't like to do something just to prove I can do it. "
" 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. "
" 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 follow the roles. "
" If somebody wants to think of me as a movie star, that's fine, that's great. It sort of makes me giggle. "
" 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. "
" 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 go where the good work is being done. "
" 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 had no fear 'cause it seemed everyone in the audience always applauded whatever I did. Course, maybe it was because I always seemed to know everyone in the audience. "
" I hated country music growing up, but it gets in your bone marrow, kind of like a disease. "
" I just make films that attract me. "
" I like horseback riding. I like to hike. I play guitar and sing. "
" I like to do films that I would want to go see, basically. I'm not out to make a fast buck. "
" I live a very wonderful life centered in my home and community. We're real involved with the school. "
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