Explore Quotes by Sissy Spacek

I loved growing up in a little town. I loved knowing people. I loved going to the store and running into people. I loved going into the store and having forgotten my bag, saying, 'Charge it, put it on my bill.' I loved going to the gas station and saying, 'Pete, fill it up.' I loved that continuity of life.

I'm not paralyzed with fear, but I realize it is important to live as if there's no tomorrow, always trying to maintain your integrity and have no regrets.

I've done some of my best work in films that fell right through the cracks, so I try to not make career moves but to build a body of work.

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

I'm a flower gardener.

I live a very wonderful life centered in my home and community. We're real involved with the school.

I like to do films that I would want to go see, basically. I'm not out to make a fast buck.

Hollywood is a film industry, a film business. I don't approach my career in that way. I see it as 'art,' and I become involved in films that ring my bell.

Hollywood is like a piranha. They don't give you breathing room. You don't have time to let your career breathe.

Nothing in life prepared me for the way I felt about being a mother. Until then, I sort of felt like a blank sheet of paper. I was always trying to second-guess myself, to be what others wanted me to be.

We like to believe we are in control of our destinies, even though we never are and we never have been.

Living in New York always felt to me like living in the middle of a carnival. It never stopped. There was something very exciting about it.

I think people in the north and the south and the east and the west, anywhere they come from, are just as interesting, and they're humans. They have the same realm of emotions that we all have. But I'm just more drawn to the Southern character and the different types, and Southern literature is so lyrical and so wonderful.

There's something about Southern characters.

I'm a binge-watcher!

I think the movie business, you meet people, and you work intensely with them, and you have these relationships - there's an intimacy to it and a familiarity to the relationship because you're having to let go of all your barriers so you can let people in and work with them.

I write about Texas, New York, California and Virginia, and they're all important places in my repertoire.

Ultimately, you have to work for your own enlightenment - for smarts - or it gets boring.

It's difficult to just let go of a character. Especially after you've been preparing and researching for weeks.

If you live only a movie-star life, you know only movie-star things. I needed to live a regular life with normal people around.

I think the thread running through most midwives is the passion.