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

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.

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

I may be ignorant but I ain't stupid!

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.

Our memories are independent of our wills. It is not so easy to forget.

Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.

I'd taken a big fat crisis off my shoulders and loaded it all on Jesus, which seemed unfair in a way, but was exactly what the Bible recommended.

Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.

The animals certainly like to be close to humans, especially as humans go through the shift in consciousness.

A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people.

You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.

Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed.

Therefore am I still a lover of the meadows and the woods, and mountains; and of all that we behold from this green earth.

A couple of things are missing from Indigenous affairs. We tend to go and process, we tend to spend a lot of money for very limited outcomes, and we have got to change that.