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" I hated country music growing up, but it gets in your bone marrow, kind of like a disease. "

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

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

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

" Music is my thing. In fact, that's what I wanted to do. I thought of myself as a musician. I had never thought about acting. "

" With my coloring, I'm nothing in black and white. I've seen my films sometimes on black-and-white TV. Disaster. "

" New York gets under your skin, and I think once you've fallen in love with New York, you take that with you. I love New York. "

" 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. "

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

" I think giving up people is a difficult thing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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 am a woman of simple tastes. "

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

" I think the thread running through most midwives is the passion. "

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

" I've done some of my best work in films that fell right through the cracks, so I try to not make career moves but to build a body of work. "

" 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. "

" The name Sissy came because my brothers called me that. "

" 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. "

" Oftentimes you read scripts, and you get to one and you think, 'OK, is this good, or is this just better than all the other ones that I have been reading?' "

" I'm a binge-watcher! "

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

" 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. "

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

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