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

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" You need to live life to be able to have something to draw from. "

" I like horseback riding. I like to hike. I play guitar and sing. "

" 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's something about Southern characters. "

" 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. "

" For me, life is a bowl of cherries. "

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

" I just make films that attract me. "

" 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. "

" The important thing is to be part of a good project with good, talented people. "

" We like to believe we are in control of our destinies, even though we never are and we never have been. "

" I hated country music growing up, but it gets in your bone marrow, kind of like a disease. "

" Hollywood's fickle. It's always been that way, and it will always be that way. And it's always going to be somebody new and exciting comes along. That's just the way it works, and it will always work that way. And I think that if you give it everything to the exclusion of your own real life and family, you've sold yourself down the river. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I've been into exercise my whole life, been a runner and been into health and fitness always. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" With my coloring, I'm nothing in black and white. I've seen my films sometimes on black-and-white TV. Disaster. "

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

" It's not seeing myself 40 feet tall on a movie screen - it's the work. That's what thrills me. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "