Sissy Spacek Quotes

• 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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• 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 know everyone in the audience.

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

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

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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.

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• My cousin, Rip Torn, persuaded me not to change my name. You shouldn’t change what you are in the search for success.

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• It’s a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.

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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’ve always been a people-watcher, and as an actor, later, I just mined all those little details.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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• You don’t forget the movies, but you forget the details of them.

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Sissy Spacek (20)

Birth:	25th December, 1949
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Singer

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