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" 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. "

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" The business has been good to me. "

" 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?' "

" If I hadn't left Texas, I might not have met the director Terrence Malick, and I wouldn't have met my husband and I wouldn't have had the children that I've had. Life is interesting like that. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I like to do films that I would want to go see, basically. I'm not out to make a fast buck. "

" 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. "

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

" There is a long tradition of pungent living in the South. It was wonderful to have that imprinted on me so early in life. I already had my core when I left my little town in Texas. "

" I am a woman of simple tastes. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I don't have any regrets, because I think life is like a creek. It kind of meanders along, and you instinctively do the things you are meant to do. There's no great plan except doing really good scripts, meeting great filmmakers. And I have to have something that I can bring to the role. "

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

" There's something about Southern characters. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" New York gets under your skin, and I think once you've fallen in love with New York, you take that with you. I love New York. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I lived in New York City, I loved it so much. But every six months, I had to go home to Texas to remember who I was. Get filled back up. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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