Explore Quotes by Sissy Spacek

There's kind of a time you get warned about where the rug gets pulled out from under you: beyond ingenue, before you get into character stuff.

Celebrity status for me came slowly. I wasn't an overnight sensation. I had time to prepare emotionally.

Our life is our life. If we waste it, we're fools.

There are classic horror films that, if you are a human being in this world, you have to have seen. They've become a part of our culture.

In every movie, there's always some physical thing that triggers the character for me. In 'The Long Walk Home,' it was the girdle. Every time I'd put that girdle on, I'd feel my character wiggle to life.

I used to play softball every summer back in Quitman. My two brothers demanded I be tough. There were certain girls they wouldn't let me invite over because they were too feminine and fragile.

Oftentimes you read scripts, and you get to one and you think, 'OK, is this good, or is this just better than all the other ones that I have been reading?'

That's what I love about acting and love and drama and art: that humanness we all share.

My children came along at a perfect time in my life. My career was soaring, and they didn't care who I thought I was. They just wanted to eat. It brought me down to earth.

When I lived in New York City, I loved it so much. But every six months, I had to go home to Texas to remember who I was. Get filled back up.

The human condition is the human condition, and what we try to do is illuminate the human condition.

I don't have any regrets, because I think life is like a creek. It kind of meanders along, and you instinctively do the things you are meant to do. There's no great plan except doing really good scripts, meeting great filmmakers. And I have to have something that I can bring to the role.

Everybody who loves me calls me Sissy, so I guess that's just who I am. When I'm 80, they'll still be calling me Sissy. Oh, well, I guess there are worse things.

You want to live your life and live it just as fully and as deeply as you can. That's your deep well of reserve. That's where you get all your - the fodder for your work.

New York gets under your skin, and I think once you've fallen in love with New York, you take that with you. I love New York.

I need to fill myself up with real life. That's kind of the well I draw from.

If somebody wants to think of me as a movie star, that's fine, that's great. It sort of makes me giggle.

The business has been good to me.

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

I swore to my parents that no one would ever be able to buy me.

I got an automatic breadmaker. It's the greatest! I get more points for that. You computerize in the results you want, and it's no fail. I'm a modern homemaker.