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" For a while, I just sang at a steakhouse. I would go from table to table and really just survived on tips. "

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" 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. "

" 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 follow the roles. "

" 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 love the women I've played. "

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

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

" I think that we all fantasize about that teeny tiny time in the film industry when women ruled, back in the '40s. "

" I swore to my parents that no one would ever be able to buy me. "

" I think that no human gets away unscathed in this old life. We've all experienced loss and grief and pain and tragedy. "

" I'm drawn to ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, which is a big part of the human condition. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" For me, life is a bowl of cherries. "

" 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. "

" We like to believe we are in control of our destinies, even though we never are and we never have been. "

" I'm a binge-watcher! "

" I go where the good work is being done. "

" I wanted to be Joni Mitchell. "

" I've not had a mean life. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm a flower gardener. "