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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" The important thing is to be part of a good project with good, talented people. "

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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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" It's really nice when the studio is behind what you're doing, because that's often not the case. "

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

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" There are stories you can tell on TV that can't be told in movies anymore. "

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" 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. "

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" It's not seeing myself 40 feet tall on a movie screen - it's the work. That's what thrills me. "

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

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" I follow the roles. "

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

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" My biggest thrill in life is to read in the afternoon until I fall asleep and take a nap. "

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

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" I'm not paralyzed with fear, but I realize it is important to live as if there's no tomorrow, always trying to maintain your integrity and have no regrets. "

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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. "

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

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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. "

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" Ultimately, you have to work for your own enlightenment - for smarts - or it gets boring. "

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" My father's family is German and Czech. "

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" Nature is really big and loud the farther south you get. "

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

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" 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.' "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" You know, I don't know what the future will bring, but I'm ready for whatever comes! "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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