155 Quotes by Sissy Spacek

I hated country music growing up, but it gets in your bone marrow, kind of like a disease.

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.

Music is my thing. In fact, that's what I wanted to do. I thought of myself as a musician. I had never thought about acting.

There are stories you can tell on TV that can't be told in movies anymore.

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

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

I feel like if I don't get a film and somebody else does, then that film never belonged to me. The ones I get belong to me.

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?'

Rarely in film acting do you get to do a scene for very long.