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" There is a long tradition of pungent living in the South. It was wonderful to have that imprinted on me so early in life. I already had my core when I left my little town in Texas. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" I'm not paralyzed with fear, but I realize it is important to live as if there's no tomorrow, always trying to maintain your integrity and have no regrets. "

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" You know, I don't know what the future will bring, but I'm ready for whatever comes! "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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" I've done some of my best work in films that fell right through the cracks, so I try to not make career moves but to build a body of work. "

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" There's something about Southern characters. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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