My biggest thrill in life is to read in the afternoon until I fall asleep and take a nap. — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
I need to fill myself up with real life. That's kind of the well I draw from. — 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
Nothing in life prepared me for the way I felt about being a mother. Until then, I sort of felt like a… — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
Texas is so big, and the place where I grew up was so little, and I was such a little thing growing… — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
I listened to that voice inside me-... Everyone has an inner voice; you just have to listen to it and trust it… — 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
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
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
I don't have any regrets, because I think life is like a creek. It kind of meanders along, and you instinctively do… — 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've been into exercise my whole life, been a runner and been into health and fitness always. — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
I think that no human gets away unscathed in this old life. We've all experienced loss and grief and pain and tragedy. — 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… — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
There is a long tradition of pungent living in the South. It was wonderful to have that imprinted on me so early… — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
You want to live your life and live it just as fully and as deeply as you can. That's your deep well… — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
What's normal? I think I'm normal... Maybe I'm abnormal because I get such a thrill from real life, just real life, everyday… — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
I lived an idyllic 'Huckleberry Finn' life in a tiny town. Climbing trees. Tagging after brothers. Happy. Barefoot on my pony. It… — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
If you live only a movie-star life, you know only movie-star things. I needed to live a regular life with normal people… — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
I live a very wonderful life centered in my home and community. We're real involved with the school. — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
I loved growing up in a little town. I loved knowing people. I loved going to the store and running into people.… — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
If I hadn't left Texas, I might not have met the director Terrence Malick, and I wouldn't have met my husband and… — 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
