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

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" Celebrity status for me came slowly. I wasn't an overnight sensation. I had time to prepare emotionally. "

" 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. "

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

" Our perception of celebrities in Hollywood is not the reality. The reality of our lives is so much like everyone else's life. We have family members we love, everyone gets up in the morning, they have three meals a day and they go about their business. "

" 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. "

" Living in New York always felt to me like living in the middle of a carnival. It never stopped. There was something very exciting about it. "

" I am a woman of simple tastes. "

" You want to live your life and live it just as fully and as deeply as you can. That's your deep well of reserve. That's where you get all your - the fodder for your work. "

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

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

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

" It's difficult to just let go of a character. Especially after you've been preparing and researching for weeks. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

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

" You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them. "

" Junior and senior high school years were not a good time. "

" It's really about the work - if you are doing it for the right reasons - really to illuminate the human condition. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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