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" One day, it just dawned on me that I'm from Texas, and that's what I am. "

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

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

" 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'm a flower gardener. "

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

" I love a lot of the '70s musicians, like Bonnie Raitt. And I love Sheryl Crow. But probably my favorite musician is a woman by the name of Schuyler Fisk. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

" For a while, I just sang at a steakhouse. I would go from table to table and really just survived on tips. "

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

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

" That was the magical thing about the Seventies: artists ruled. Because films were relatively low-budget, nobody cared. We could just go off and work. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's really nice when the studio is behind what you're doing, because that's often not the case. "

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

" It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character. "

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

" 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 actually never got in a play in school. My teacher said I never learned my lines. "

" I wouldn't sell those New York actors short. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" If you live only a movie-star life, you know only movie-star things. I needed to live a regular life with normal people around. "

" 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. "