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

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.

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.

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.

Romance is like maintaining a car. If you do a good job of it, you will always have a dependable quiet ride.

I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...

Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about.

As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.

Don't believe everything you read.

In the end, everything came down to money. It came down to what a person actually did, as opposed to who they thought they were.

Do not be depressed. Do not let your weakness make you impatient. Instead, let the serenity of your spirit shine through your face. Let the joy of your mind burst forth.

The question for me is not are we political, but how are we political? We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage.

We must plunge heart and soul and body into the work. And until we are ready to sacrifice everything else to one Idea and to one alone, we never, never will see the Light.

It is within the power of every man to become great.