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" I live a very wonderful life centered in my home and community. We're real involved with the school. "

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" I got an automatic breadmaker. It's the greatest! I get more points for that. You computerize in the results you want, and it's no fail. I'm a modern homemaker. "

" I don't like to do something just to prove I can do it. "

" Just about every town in Texas has a beauty pageant. Ours was called The Dogwood Fiesta. I was in one of those. I played the guitar and sang - and lost. "

" 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. "

" There are fewer roles, and I've done so many things already that I don't want to repeat, so to find something you haven't done is harder. I don't want to play a country singer again. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I just make films that attract me. "

" It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character. "

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

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

" I follow the roles. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Jingle taps on the majorette boots were an important part of a little girl growing up in the South. "

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

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

" 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.' "

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

" My cousin, Rip Torn, persuaded me not to change my name. You shouldn't change what you are in the search for success. "

" 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. "

" Everybody who loves me calls me Sissy, so I guess that's just who I am. When I'm 80, they'll still be calling me Sissy. Oh, well, I guess there are worse things. "

" Our life is our life. If we waste it, we're fools. "