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" What's normal? I think I'm normal... Maybe I'm abnormal because I get such a thrill from real life, just real life, everyday things. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Nature is my church. The wind in the trees and the bugs and the frogs. All those things are comfort to me. "

" There's a real danger in trying to stay king of the mountain. You stop taking risks, you stop being as creative, because you're trying to maintain a position. Apart from anything else that really takes the fun out of it. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I'm a binge-watcher! "

" 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. "

" If I hadn't left Texas, I might not have met the director Terrence Malick, and I wouldn't have met my husband and I wouldn't have had the children that I've had. Life is interesting like that. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

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

" The business has been good to me. "

" 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 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. "

" I just make films that attract me. "

" 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. "

" Jingle taps on the majorette boots were an important part of a little girl growing up in the South. "

" 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. "

" That's what I love about acting and love and drama and art: that humanness we all share. "

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

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

" 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. "