155 Quotes by Sissy Spacek

I don't take characters home with me.

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.

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.

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.

I may be ignorant but I ain't stupid!

You know, your career is just your career; your life is your life!

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

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.

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.