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

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

" 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. "

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

" I loved growing up in a little town. I loved knowing people. I loved going to the store and running into people. I loved going into the store and having forgotten my bag, saying, 'Charge it, put it on my bill.' I loved going to the gas station and saying, 'Pete, fill it up.' I loved that continuity of life. "

" 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. "

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

" When I was a little kid, I used to spend a lot of time thinking about what I'd wish for if a magic fairy gave me three wishes. First, I wanted to be loved. Then, I wanted to be beautiful. And, finally, I'd wish for a million more wishes. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Nothing in life prepared me for the way I felt about being a mother. Until then, I sort of felt like a blank sheet of paper. I was always trying to second-guess myself, to be what others wanted me to be. "

" When I first met David Lynch, he was living in the stables of the American Film Institute... He'd work all night and have his crew lock him in during the day, and he'd sleep. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

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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. "

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

" If you live only a movie-star life, you know only movie-star things. I needed to live a regular life with normal people around. "