Sissy Spacek Quotes & Sayings

I may be ignorant but I ain't stupid! — Sissy Spacek

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

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

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

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

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

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

Banana Splits for Breakfast. I think I ate about five. — Sissy Spacek

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

You know, your career is just your career; your life is your life! — Sissy Spacek

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

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

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

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

The name Sissy came because my brothers called me that. — Sissy Spacek

I don't take characters home with me. — Sissy Spacek

I've not had a mean life. — Sissy Spacek

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

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

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

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

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

A great screenplay is the most powerful bait in Hollywood. — Sissy Spacek

You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them. — Sissy Spacek

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

I couldn't think of anything I wanted to do or any place I wanted to be more than home. Where I can walk around the yard, sweeping leaves off the slate paths to my heart's content. Where I can spend all day in my pajamas puttering around the house, or curled up in my favorite chair in the family room next to the big stone fireplace. The walls are papered deep red, hung with Madison's paintings and lined with our favorite books. The furniture is comfortable and inviting. Our house is made to be lived in; we use every inch of it and don't mind the signs of wear and tear. There's a deep dent in the floor next to the hearth ... It's part of the story of this house, where a family has left its mark, and where it continues to grow and evolve. — Sissy Spacek

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. — Sissy Spacek

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

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

It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character. — Sissy Spacek

You know, I don't know what the future will bring, but I'm ready for whatever comes! — Sissy Spacek

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

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