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" My daughter is far more talented than me in the songwriting department - far more. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I had a dozen years to act before starting a family, then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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 only learn from the people I work with. "

" Our perception of celebrities in Hollywood is not the reality. The reality of our lives is so much like everyone else's life. We have family members we love, everyone gets up in the morning, they have three meals a day and they go about their business. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I love the women I've played. "

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

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

" In every movie, there's always some physical thing that triggers the character for me. In 'The Long Walk Home,' it was the girdle. Every time I'd put that girdle on, I'd feel my character wiggle to life. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I'm a flower gardener. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My father's family is German and Czech. "

" 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. "