I'm not Meryl Streep. My God - she's the greatest actor that ever lived. It's sad that ordinary actors like me are… — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
I'm a fool for a good role in a creative piece where there are really such talented writers and wonderful actors. — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
That's what I love about acting and love and drama and art: that humanness we all share. — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
I've always been a people-watcher, and as an actor, later, I just mined all those little details. — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
I actually never got in a play in school. My teacher said I never learned my lines. — 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 Image
One day, it just dawned on me that I'm from Texas, and that's what I am. — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
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 Image
Jingle taps on the majorette boots were an important part of a little girl growing up in the South. — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
You get angry and frustrated wondering, 'Are there enough parts for women?' — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
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 Image
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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
