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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" I only learn from the people I work with. "

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

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

" For me, I never really wanted to be in a 'Sissy Spacek' vehicle. That was not my intention. I got to be the 'Everygirl.' "

" 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.' "

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

" That's what I love about acting and love and drama and art: that humanness we all share. "

" 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. "

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

" 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've been into exercise my whole life, been a runner and been into health and fitness always. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" There's a real danger in trying to stay king of the mountain. You stop taking risks, you stop being as creative, because you're trying to maintain a position. Apart from anything else that really takes the fun out of it. "

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

" 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. "

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