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Sissy Spacek
American
Actress
Born:
Dec 25
,
1949
Life
Me
People
Think
Work
You
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Nature is my church. The wind in the trees and the bugs and the frogs. All those things are comfort to me.
Sissy Spacek
Nature
Me
Church
Wind
Trees
Those
Comfort
Bugs
Frogs
Things
The human condition is the human condition, and what we try to do is illuminate the human condition.
Sissy Spacek
Try
Condition
Human
Human Condition
Illuminate
You know, I don't know what the future will bring, but I'm ready for whatever comes!
Sissy Spacek
Future
You
Will
Whatever
Know
Ready
Bring
I'm not very big. But I've got a big bark and a lot of heart.
Sissy Spacek
Heart
Big
Got
Lot
Very
Bark
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.
Sissy Spacek
Integrity
Fear
Tomorrow
Important
Live
Paralyzed
No Regrets
Maintain
Always
Trying
Realize
Regrets
Your
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
Life
Happy
Barefoot
Trees
Brothers
Town
Climbing
Idyllic
Huckleberry
Huckleberry Finn
Tiny
After
Pony
Lived
I'm a flower gardener.
Sissy Spacek
Flower
Gardener
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.
Sissy Spacek
Life
Good
Great
You
Think
Meeting
Kind
Something
Good Scripts
Except
Instinctively
Along
Like
Because
Doing
Role
Any
Scripts
Plan
Regrets
Really
Meant
Things
Bring
Creek
Filmmakers
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
Family
Me
Value
Motherhood
Year
Before
Else
Everything
Project
Once
Everything Else
Take
Had
Redeeming
Years
Social
Then
Act
Appeals
Found
Twice
Dozen
Starting
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
You
Creative
Risks
King
Taking Risks
Else
Danger
Out
Stay
Takes
Taking
Maintain
Because
Real
Mountain
Trying
Stop
Being
Anything
Anything Else
Apart
Really
Fun
Position
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
Life
Home
Great
Family
Age
Guitar
Values
My Life
Before
Great Family
Musician
Folk
Folk Singer
Shaped
Had
Support
Most
Singer
Leaving
Leaving Home
Wanted
Things
Early
Playing
Early Age
There's nothing like not washing your teeth or washing your face or brushing your teeth in the morning.
Sissy Spacek
Morning
Face
Nothing
Teeth
Brushing
Like
Your
Washing
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.
Sissy Spacek
Work
Relationship
You
Business
People
Think
Meet
Relationships
Intimacy
Having
Because
Go
Familiarity
Intensely
Movie
Movie Business
Them
Your
Barriers
Let Go
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.
Sissy Spacek
Life
Time
Me
Care
Thought
My Life
Down
Earth
Eat
Brought
Perfect
Along
Came
Just
Children
Wanted
Soaring
Who
Down To Earth
Career
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.
Sissy Spacek
Life
Time
Home
Character
Me
Walk
Long
Every
Wiggle
Every Time
Triggers
Physical
Girdle
Some
Physical Thing
Put
Feel
Always
Movie
Thing
You need to live life to be able to have something to draw from.
Sissy Spacek
Life
You
Live Life
Live
Draw
Able
Something
Need
You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them.
Sissy Spacek
You
Details
Forget
Movies
Them
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
Family
Remember
Girl
Down
Everything
Vividly
Put
Still
Just
Wanted
Stories
While
The name Sissy came because my brothers called me that.
Sissy Spacek
Me
Brothers
Name
Because
Came
Sissy
I've always been a people-watcher, and as an actor, later, I just mined all those little details.
Sissy Spacek
Later
Those
Details
Always
Been
Just
Little
Actor
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
Fear
Cause
No Fear
Whatever
Everyone
Seemed
Had
Know
Course
Because
Audience
Always
Did
Maybe
Applauded
Jingle taps on the majorette boots were an important part of a little girl growing up in the South.
Sissy Spacek
Girl
Important
Boots
Part
Important Part
Were
South
Up
Little
Little Girl
Growing
Growing Up
Fame sweeps you away. I had to go home every six months to remember who I am.
Sissy Spacek
Home
You
Remember
Every
Months
Had
Am
Go
Go Home
Fame
Six
Who
Away
I've not had a mean life.
Sissy Spacek
Life
Had
Mean
I'm a fool for a good role in a creative piece where there are really such talented writers and wonderful actors.
Sissy Spacek
Good
Creative
Fool
Wonderful
Writers
Talented
Piece
Role
Where
Really
Actor
I love the women I've played.
Sissy Spacek
Love
Women
Played
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