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" There are stories you can tell on TV that can't be told in movies anymore. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Nothing in life prepared me for the way I felt about being a mother. Until then, I sort of felt like a blank sheet of paper. I was always trying to second-guess myself, to be what others wanted me to be. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I lived an idyllic 'Huckleberry Finn' life in a tiny town. Climbing trees. Tagging after brothers. Happy. Barefoot on my pony. It was 'To Kill a Mockingbird'-esque. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" There's something about Southern characters. "

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

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

" My children came along at a perfect time in my life. My career was soaring, and they didn't care who I thought I was. They just wanted to eat. It brought me down to earth. "

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

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

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" The name Sissy came because my brothers called me that. "