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" Some families can experience terrible tragedy and deal with it, and others not. I find those things fascinating. "

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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. "

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

" I follow the roles. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" My roots allow me to let go of the fear of failure. "

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

" The business has been good to me. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I started out in independent films in the early '70s, we did everything for the love of art. It wasn't about money and stardom. That was what we were reacting against. You'd die before you'd be bought. "

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

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

" I'm a fool for a brilliant filmmaker. And for someone who wants to try new things. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 live a very wonderful life centered in my home and community. We're real involved with the school. "

" 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 connect with just plain old everyday people. Human behavior fascinates me, the people who are the nuts and bolts of this country who help hold up the world. "

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

" 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. "