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

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!

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.

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.

Each flies with its own kind: pigeon with pigeon, hawk with hawk.

When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.

Zen professes itself to be the spirit of Buddhism, but in fact it is the spirit of all religions and philosophies.

I was my own worst enemy in my debut. Not one player tested my mechanics.

Racism doesn't know color, death doesn't know age, and pain doesn't know might.

He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal.

The music business, or what's left of it, is obviously a very - it's like a wild west now.

I require something so horrifically alcoholic that it makes livers tremble with fear and run for their lives when its name is uttered.

The greatness of contemplation can be given to none but those who love.

Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly.