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" Music is my thing. In fact, that's what I wanted to do. I thought of myself as a musician. I had never thought about acting. "

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" I feel like if I don't get a film and somebody else does, then that film never belonged to me. The ones I get belong to me. "

" 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.' "

" 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 had no fear 'cause it seemed everyone in the audience always applauded whatever I did. Course, maybe it was because I always seemed to know everyone in the audience. "

" My roots allow me to let go of the fear of failure. "

" Junior and senior high school years were not a good time. "

" 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. "

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

" There's something about Southern characters. "

" The human condition is the human condition, and what we try to do is illuminate the human condition. "

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

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

" The business has been good to me. "

" There are stories you can tell on TV that can't be told in movies anymore. "

" I've not had a mean life. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" If you live only a movie-star life, you know only movie-star things. I needed to live a regular life with normal people around. "

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

" 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. "

" You want to live your life and live it just as fully and as deeply as you can. That's your deep well of reserve. That's where you get all your - the fodder for your work. "

" 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. "

" I live a very wonderful life centered in my home and community. We're real involved with the school. "

" 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. "

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