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

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

" 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. "

" Nature is my church. The wind in the trees and the bugs and the frogs. All those things are comfort to me. "

" Hollywood is a film industry, a film business. I don't approach my career in that way. I see it as 'art,' and I become involved in films that ring my bell. "

" My children came along at a perfect time in my life. My career was soaring, and they didn't care who I thought I was. They just wanted to eat. It brought me down to earth. "

" 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. "

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

" I lived an idyllic 'Huckleberry Finn' life in a tiny town. Climbing trees. Tagging after brothers. Happy. Barefoot on my pony. It was 'To Kill a Mockingbird'-esque. "

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

" The business has been good to me. "

" 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 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. "

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

" I'm a binge-watcher! "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Rarely in film acting do you get to do a scene for very long. "

" There are classic horror films that, if you are a human being in this world, you have to have seen. They've become a part of our culture. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I am a woman of simple tastes. "

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