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
I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a… — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
Most things in my life I had before leaving home. Values, support, great family. I was shaped at an early age. A… — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
Our perception of celebrities in Hollywood is not the reality. The reality of our lives is so much like everyone else's life.… — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
Hollywood's fickle. It's always been that way, and it will always be that way. And it's always going to be somebody new… — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
I think my mother's family came on the Mayflower from England - D.A.R., you know. — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
Some families can experience terrible tragedy and deal with it, and others not. I find those things fascinating. — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
I wanted to put all my family stories down for my girls, and I remember everything so vividly. I just wanted to… — 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
