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" Nature is really big and loud the farther south you get. "

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" My parents were devoted. Civic minded. We had family counsels. Three of us children against two of them. We lived a 'Leave It to Beaver' time. "

" I think the thread running through most midwives is the passion. "

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

" 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 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. "

" I studied homeopathy for years and years. Herbs and all kinds of acupuncture, acupressure, alternative medicine. I think it's just better to treat the whole person. "

" Hollywood is a film industry, a film business. I don't approach my career in that way. I see it as 'art,' and I become involved in films that ring my bell. "

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

" If somebody wants to think of me as a movie star, that's fine, that's great. It sort of makes me giggle. "

" The business has been good to me. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" I don't have any regrets, because I think life is like a creek. It kind of meanders along, and you instinctively do the things you are meant to do. There's no great plan except doing really good scripts, meeting great filmmakers. And I have to have something that I can bring to the role. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm a fool for a good role in a creative piece where there are really such talented writers and wonderful actors. "