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

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

" 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. "

" 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?' "

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

" I follow the roles. "

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

" I only learn from the people I work with. "

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

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

" 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. "

" If somebody wants to think of me as a movie star, that's fine, that's great. It sort of makes me giggle. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

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

" There's something about Southern characters. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 think that we all fantasize about that teeny tiny time in the film industry when women ruled, back in the '40s. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Ultimately, you have to work for your own enlightenment - for smarts - or it gets boring. "

" The business has been good to me. "