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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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" You need to live life to be able to have something to draw from. "

" 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. "

" I just make films that attract me. "

" I think people in the north and the south and the east and the west, anywhere they come from, are just as interesting, and they're humans. They have the same realm of emotions that we all have. But I'm just more drawn to the Southern character and the different types, and Southern literature is so lyrical and so wonderful. "

" 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 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. "

" My parents were devoted. Civic minded. We had family counsels. Three of us children against two of them. We lived a 'Leave It to Beaver' time. "

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

" When I started out in independent films in the early '70s, we did everything for the love of art. It wasn't about money and stardom. That was what we were reacting against. You'd die before you'd be bought. "

" 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. "

" It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character. "

" The human condition is the human condition, and what we try to do is illuminate the human condition. "

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

" I used to play softball every summer back in Quitman. My two brothers demanded I be tough. There were certain girls they wouldn't let me invite over because they were too feminine and fragile. "

" 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. "

" 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 actually never got in a play in school. My teacher said I never learned my lines. "

" I wanted to put all my family stories down for my girls, and I remember everything so vividly. I just wanted to put everything down while I still can remember it all. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Some families can experience terrible tragedy and deal with it, and others not. I find those things fascinating. "

" I write about Texas, New York, California and Virginia, and they're all important places in my repertoire. "

" I think my mother's family came on the Mayflower from England - D.A.R., you know. "

" I like horseback riding. I like to hike. I play guitar and sing. "

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

" 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. "