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 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.

Loving someone is giving them the power to break your heart, but trusting them not to.

After all, there are those people we like and dislike, there are those people we love, and then there are those we recognize. These are the unbreakable connections.

What seeks you when you are not seeking, is the universe's way of speaking to you without speaking.

[I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is.

Whether it's at a concert in France or a restaurant in the United States, terrorism doesn't have to happen in a military installation by any stretch of the imagination.

Let's be clear, I'm a strong woman.

Anybody who knows how to make a good movie, knows that it's a collaborative undertaking. To deny that its really dangerous.

You might be a redneck if your kids are going hungry tonight because you just had to have those Yosemite Sam mud flaps.

You have to become involved to make an impact. No one is impressed with the won/loss record of the referee.

We are taught not to trust our own experiences. Great Salt Lake teaches me experience is all we have.