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

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" I'm a flower gardener. "

" I wanted to be Joni Mitchell. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I only learn from the people I work with. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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'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. "

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

" I love the women I've played. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" It's difficult to just let go of a character. Especially after you've been preparing and researching for weeks. "

" 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. "

" 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?' "

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

" You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them. "

" 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. "

" I think that we all fantasize about that teeny tiny time in the film industry when women ruled, back in the '40s. "

" I need to fill myself up with real life. That's kind of the well I draw from. "

" 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. "