I think that we all fantasize about that teeny tiny time in the film industry when women ruled, back in the '40s. — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
Celebrity status for me came slowly. I wasn't an overnight sensation. I had time to prepare emotionally. — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
You know, I don't know what the future will bring, but I'm ready for whatever comes! — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
Hollywood is like a piranha. They don't give you breathing room. You don't have time to let your career breathe. — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
In every movie, there's always some physical thing that triggers the character for me. In 'The Long Walk Home,' it was the… — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
There's kind of a time you get warned about where the rug gets pulled out from under you: beyond ingenue, before you… — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
My children came along at a perfect time in my life. My career was soaring, and they didn't care who I thought… — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
My parents were devoted. Civic minded. We had family counsels. Three of us children against two of them. We lived a 'Leave… — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
When I was a little kid, I used to spend a lot of time thinking about what I'd wish for if a… — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
There have been several television movies, 'Carrie 2,' two musicals! I remember thinking, the first time there was a musical on Broadway,… — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
I'm not Meryl Streep. My God - she's the greatest actor that ever lived. It's sad that ordinary actors like me are compared to… — Sissy Spacek Copy Share
Just about every town in Texas has a beauty pageant. Ours was called The Dogwood Fiesta. I was in one of those. I played… — Sissy Spacek Copy Share
Jingle taps on the majorette boots were an important part of a little girl growing up in the South. — Sissy Spacek Copy Share
I feel like if I don't get a film and somebody else does, then that film never belonged to me. The ones I get… — Sissy Spacek Copy Share
Film is an amazing art form, but so is life. When your career and your life can work together, and one can support the… — Sissy Spacek Copy Share
You get angry and frustrated wondering, 'Are there enough parts for women?' — Sissy Spacek Copy Share
I studied homeopathy for years and years. Herbs and all kinds of acupuncture, acupressure, alternative medicine. I think it's just better to treat the… — Sissy Spacek Copy Share
I think that we all fantasize about that teeny tiny time in the film industry when women ruled, back in the '40s. — Sissy Spacek Copy Share
Texas is just so rich with characters. Women who live alone in a little house on a thousand acres with nothing but cattle and… — Sissy Spacek Copy Share
I think the movie business, you meet people, and you work intensely with them, and you have these relationships - there's an intimacy to… — Sissy Spacek Copy Share
Music is my thing. In fact, that's what I wanted to do. I thought of myself as a musician. I had never thought about… — Sissy Spacek Copy Share
