Actor Quote by Sissy Spacek

“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 her.”

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One day, it just dawned on me that I'm from Texas, and that's what I am.

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Just about every town in Texas has a beauty pageant. Ours was called The Dogwood Fiesta. I was in one of those. I played…

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Jingle taps on the majorette boots were an important part of a little girl growing up in the South.

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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…

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There's something about Southern characters.

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Film is an amazing art form, but so is life. When your career and your life can work together, and one can support the…

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You get angry and frustrated wondering, 'Are there enough parts for women?'

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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…

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My roots allow me to let go of the fear of failure.

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I think that we all fantasize about that teeny tiny time in the film industry when women ruled, back in the '40s.

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Texas is just so rich with characters. Women who live alone in a little house on a thousand acres with nothing but cattle and…

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I think the movie business, you meet people, and you work intensely with them, and you have these relationships - there's an intimacy to…

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