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

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" 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'm a binge-watcher! "

" 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. "

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

" Nothing in life prepared me for the way I felt about being a mother. Until then, I sort of felt like a blank sheet of paper. I was always trying to second-guess myself, to be what others wanted me to be. "

" 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. "

" I wanted to put all my family stories down for my girls, and I remember everything so vividly. I just wanted to put everything down while I still can remember it all. "

" I used to play softball every summer back in Quitman. My two brothers demanded I be tough. There were certain girls they wouldn't let me invite over because they were too feminine and fragile. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Celebrity status for me came slowly. I wasn't an overnight sensation. I had time to prepare emotionally. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 follow the roles. "

" 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. "

" There's nothing like not washing your teeth or washing your face or brushing your teeth in the morning. "

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

" 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 swore to my parents that no one would ever be able to buy me. "

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

" I'm not Meryl Streep. My God - she's the greatest actor that ever lived. It's sad that ordinary actors like me are compared to her. "