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

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.

A knowledgeable curious mind is the bridging ground for ideas.

It doesn't make you a monster to want, she said, her voice very gentle. It's what you do with it that matters.

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.

Even if I would have left on a good note, there is still going to be people who don't like you, who don't like what you stand for. I can't worry about that.

Raise your right palm: We do solemnly swear To stack more dough more calmly this year.

Women come in all shapes and sizes, and we are what we want to be, not the label that is placed on us.

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.

Actually, I think the average voice is like 70 percent tone and 30 percent noise. My voice is 95 percent noise.

Im saying that an editorial process that is preparing the material for publication counts as part of the inspiring process whereby God, in his sovereignty, gave every word.

Creating safety is your first job [as therapist], and then once that's established, you can use many tools to help someone see the folly in their thinking.