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

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" I need to fill myself up with real life. That's kind of the well I draw from. "

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

" Nature is really big and loud the farther south you get. "

" 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. "

" What's normal? I think I'm normal... Maybe I'm abnormal because I get such a thrill from real life, just real life, everyday things. "

" It's difficult to just let go of a character. Especially after you've been preparing and researching for weeks. "

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

" The name Sissy came because my brothers called me that. "

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

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

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

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

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

" I think giving up people is a difficult thing. "

" Some families can experience terrible tragedy and deal with it, and others not. I find those things fascinating. "

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

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

" That was the magical thing about the Seventies: artists ruled. Because films were relatively low-budget, nobody cared. We could just go off and work. "

" 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. "

" 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 think that we all fantasize about that teeny tiny time in the film industry when women ruled, back in the '40s. "

" I follow the roles. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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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. "