Sissy Spacek Quotes

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 shouldn't change what you are in the search for success.

The name Sissy came because my brothers called me that.

I was always proud about being from Texas and, you know, maybe that was part of fearlessness. I love the fact that Texas is so big, but you don't feel small because of that.

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

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.

You know, your career is just your career; your life is your life!

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 may be ignorant but I ain't stupid!

When I'm pushing myself, testing myself, that's when I'm happiest. That's when the rewards are greatest.

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.

My parents were devoted. Civic minded. We had family counsels. Three of us children against two of them. We lived a 'Leave It to Beaver' time.

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

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.

A great screenplay is the most powerful bait in Hollywood.

I've always been a people-watcher, and as an actor, later, I just mined all those little details.

I don't take characters home with me.

Banana Splits for Breakfast. I think I ate about five.

I've not had a mean life.

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.

Fame sweeps you away. I had to go home every six months to remember who I am.

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.

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

But you finally think, there is what there is, and you have to work within those confines and just keep chipping away at your own work.

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

You relate to a character and you find that character within yourself. It's all parts of me. I don't leave characters behind. I just let them go.

I've been into exercise my whole life, been a runner and been into health and fitness always.