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

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

" 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. "

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

" I wanted to be Joni Mitchell. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" I am a woman of simple tastes. "

" I follow the roles. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" You get angry and frustrated wondering, 'Are there enough parts for women?' "

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

" Texas is just so rich with characters. Women who live alone in a little house on a thousand acres with nothing but cattle and a pickup truck. And an airplane. "

" I like to do films that I would want to go see, basically. I'm not out to make a fast buck. "

" I had no fear 'cause it seemed everyone in the audience always applauded whatever I did. Course, maybe it was because I always seemed to know everyone in the audience. "