Sissy Spacek Quotes

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• You know, your career is just your career; your life is your life!
• You shouldn't change what you are in the search for success.
• I didn't worry about leaving the fast lane - I was just so consumed with my baby that it seemed like the right thing to…
• You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them.
• 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…
• I may be ignorant but I ain't stupid!
• I listened to that voice inside me-... Everyone has an inner voice; you just have to listen to it and trust it in order to…
• I've always been a people-watcher, and as an actor, later, I just mined all those little details.
• Banana Splits for Breakfast. I think I ate about five.
• There's a real danger in trying to stay king of the mountain. You stop taking risks, you stop being as creative, because you're trying to…
• When I started out in independent films in the early '70s, we did everything for the love of art. It wasn't about money and stardom.…
• Fame sweeps you away. I had to go home every six months to remember who I am.
• I'm a fool for a good role in a creative piece where there are really such talented writers and wonderful actors.
• I've not had a mean life.
• It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.
• 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'…
• The name Sissy came because my brothers called me that.
• You know, I don't know what the future will bring, but I'm ready for whatever comes!
• I had no fear 'cause it seemed everyone in the audience always applauded whatever I did. Course, maybe it was because I always seemed to…
• 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…

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