Sissy Spacek Quotes

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• You shouldn't change what you are in the search for success.

  Sissy Spacek

  Writing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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 be led by it. I did that, and it gave me the ability to live a life that's true to who I am and what I really wanted.

  Sissy Spacek

  Who I Am, Order, Voice

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• I was always proud about being from Texas and, you know, maybe that was part of fearlessness. I love the fact that Texas is so big, but you don't feel small because of that.

  Sissy Spacek

  Texas, Proud, Facts

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• When I'm pushing myself, testing myself, that's when I'm happiest. That's when the rewards are greatest.

  Sissy Spacek

  Rewards, Pushing, Testing

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• 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 maintain a position. Apart from anything else that really takes the fun out of it.

  Sissy Spacek

  Kings, Fun, Real

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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. That was what we were reacting against. You'd die before you'd be bought.

  Sissy Spacek

  Art, Independent, Film

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I may be ignorant but I ain't stupid!

  Sissy Spacek

  Stupid, Ignorant, May

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• You know, your career is just your career; your life is your life!

  Sissy Spacek

  Careers, True Life, Life Is

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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 a pickup truck. And an airplane.

  Sissy Spacek

  Airplane, Character, Texas

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• You know, I don’t know what the future will bring, but I’m ready for whatever comes!

  Sissy Spacek

  Ready, Knows

  "Sissy Spacek On ‘An Extraordinary Ordinary Life’: Oscar-Winning Star Talks Career, Kids And ‘Carrie’". Interview with Curtis M. Wong, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 16, 2012.

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• 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 do. I never felt like I left New York, though. If you've lived in a place and loved it, you never feel like you left it.

  Sissy Spacek

  Baby, New York, Worry

  "Sissy Spacek Gets In The Bedroom" By Roger Friedman, www.foxnews.com. November 19, 2001.

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• Fame sweeps you away. I had to go home every six months to remember who I am.

  Sissy Spacek

  Home, Who I Am, Six Months

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• If I hadn’t left Texas, I might not have met the director Terrence Malick, and I wouldn’t have met my husband and I wouldn’t have had the children that I’ve had. Life is interesting like that.

  Sissy Spacek

  Children, Husband, Texas

  "Sissy Spacek On ‘An Extraordinary Ordinary Life’: Oscar-Winning Star Talks Career, Kids And ‘Carrie’". Interview with Curtis M. Wong, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 16, 2012.

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• You relate to a character and you find that character within yourself. It's all parts of me. I don't leave characters behind. I just let them go.

  Sissy Spacek

  Character, Behinds, Relate

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• 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' time.

  Sissy Spacek

  Children, Two, Parent

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• 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 a Mockingbird'-esque.

  Sissy Spacek

  Brother, Climbing, Tree

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• I've not had a mean life.

  Sissy Spacek

  Mean, Meaning Life

  "Sissy Spacek Talks ‘My Extraordinary Ordinary Life,’ Hollywood Stereotypes" by Naughty But Nice Rob, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 1, 2012.

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• Most things in my life I had before leaving home. Values, support, great family. I was shaped at an early age. A musician playing guitar, I wanted to be a folk singer.

  Sissy Spacek

  Home, Guitar, Support

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• Our perception of celebrities in Hollywood is not the reality. The reality of our lives is so much like everyone else's life. We have family members we love, everyone gets up in the morning, they have three meals a day and they go about their business.

  Sissy Spacek

  Morning, Reality, Perception

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• The name Sissy came because my brothers called me that.

  Sissy Spacek

  Brother, Names, My Brother

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• 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 a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.

  Sissy Spacek

  Motherhood, Social Values, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Banana Splits for Breakfast. I think I ate about five.

  Sissy Spacek

  Thinking, Ice Cream, Breakfast

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• I'm a fool for a good role in a creative piece where there are really such talented writers and wonderful actors.

  Sissy Spacek

  Creative, Roles, Actors

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• But you finally think, there is what there is, and you have to work within those confines and just keep chipping away at your own work.

  Sissy Spacek

  Thinking, Chipping Away

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• I wanted to put all my family stories down for my girls, and I remember everything so vividly. I just wanted to put everything down while I still can remember it all.

  Sissy Spacek

  Girl, Remembers Everything, Stories

  "Sissy Spacek On ‘An Extraordinary Ordinary Life’: Oscar-Winning Star Talks Career, Kids And ‘Carrie’". Interview with Curtis M. Wong, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 16, 2012.

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