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" I'm not very big. But I've got a big bark and a lot of heart. "

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" Texas is so big, and the place where I grew up was so little, and I was such a little thing growing up in the middle of it. I had two choices: I could either spend my life feeling insignificant, or I could look on the life I lived as a microcosm of the universe. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Oftentimes you read scripts, and you get to one and you think, 'OK, is this good, or is this just better than all the other ones that I have been reading?' "

" I love the women I've played. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" I just make films that attract me. "

" I'm drawn to ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, which is a big part of the human condition. "

" 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 am a woman of simple tastes. "

" 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. "

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

" 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'm a flower gardener. "

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" 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'm a fool for a brilliant filmmaker. And for someone who wants to try new things. "

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

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

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

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