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" I'm a fool for a good role in a creative piece where there are really such talented writers and wonderful actors. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Fame sweeps you away. I had to go home every six months to remember who I am. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" For me, life is a bowl of cherries. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 wouldn't sell those New York actors short. "

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

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

" I had a dozen years to act before starting a family, then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value. "

" 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. "

" 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 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 just make films that attract me. "

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "