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Sissy Spacek
American
Actress
Born:
Dec 25
,
1949
Life
Me
People
Think
Work
You
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I connect with just plain old everyday people. Human behavior fascinates me, the people who are the nuts and bolts of this country who help hold up the world.
Sissy Spacek
Me
People
World
Behavior
Old
Country
Everyday
Everyday People
Nuts
Up
Human
Just
Human Behavior
Hold
Plain
Help
Who
Connect
Fascinates
Bolts
I'm drawn to ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, which is a big part of the human condition.
Sissy Spacek
People
Big
Extraordinary
Extraordinary Circumstances
Circumstances
Drawn
Find
Part
Condition
Big Part
Human
Human Condition
Ordinary
Which
Ordinary People
Themselves
Who
The important thing is to be part of a good project with good, talented people.
Sissy Spacek
Good
People
Important
Project
Part
Talented
Talented People
Important Thing
Thing
For me, I never really wanted to be in a 'Sissy Spacek' vehicle. That was not my intention. I got to be the 'Everygirl.'
Sissy Spacek
Me
Never
Vehicle
Got
Sissy
Intention
Wanted
Really
I go where the good work is being done.
Sissy Spacek
Work
Good
Good Work
Go
Done
Being
Where
Being Done
Just about every town in Texas has a beauty pageant. Ours was called The Dogwood Fiesta. I was in one of those. I played the guitar and sang - and lost.
Sissy Spacek
Guitar
Beauty
Lost
Every
Those
Ours
About
Town
Texas
Just
Pageant
Sang
Played
My father's family is German and Czech.
Sissy Spacek
Family
Father
German
Czech
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.
Sissy Spacek
Music
Myself
Thought
Musician
About
Fact
Never
Had
In Fact
Wanted
Acting
Thing
I actually never got in a play in school. My teacher said I never learned my lines.
Sissy Spacek
Teacher
School
Never
Learned
Said
Got
Lines
Play
Actually
That was the magical thing about the Seventies: artists ruled. Because films were relatively low-budget, nobody cared. We could just go off and work.
Sissy Spacek
Work
Films
Relatively
Seventies
Ruled
About
Magical
Could
Nobody
Because
Go
Were
Off
Just
Artists
Low-Budget
Thing
Cared
I'm a fool for a brilliant filmmaker. And for someone who wants to try new things.
Sissy Spacek
Fool
Try
Brilliant
New Things
Someone
New
Wants
Who
Things
Filmmaker
It's difficult to just let go of a character. Especially after you've been preparing and researching for weeks.
Sissy Spacek
Character
You
Difficult
Weeks
Go
Been
Just
After
Researching
Let Go
Preparing
I only learn from the people I work with.
Sissy Spacek
Work
People
Only
Learn
Ultimately, you have to work for your own enlightenment - for smarts - or it gets boring.
Sissy Spacek
Work
You
Own
Boring
Smarts
Ultimately
Gets
Your
Enlightenment
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.
Sissy Spacek
Love
You
Skin
Think
Once
Take
New
Fallen
York
Gets
New York
Your
My daughter is far more talented than me in the songwriting department - far more.
Sissy Spacek
Me
Daughter
More
Songwriting
Talented
Than
Department
Far
It's really nice when the studio is behind what you're doing, because that's often not the case.
Sissy Spacek
You
Nice
Case
Studio
Because
Doing
Often
Behind
Really
I wouldn't sell those New York actors short.
Sissy Spacek
Those
New
Sell
York
Short
New York
Actor
I think people in the north and the south and the east and the west, anywhere they come from, are just as interesting, and they're humans. They have the same realm of emotions that we all have. But I'm just more drawn to the Southern character and the different types, and Southern literature is so lyrical and so wonderful.
Sissy Spacek
Character
People
Emotions
Wonderful
Think
Lyrical
Types
Drawn
East
More
Come
West
South
Southern
North
Same
Just
Different
Literature
Anywhere
Interesting
Realm
Different Types
Humans
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.
Sissy Spacek
Me
Living
Carnival
About
Something
Never
Exciting
New
Like
Felt
Always
Very
York
Stopped
New York
Middle
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?'
Sissy Spacek
Good
You
Better
Reading
Think
Other
OK
Read
Been
Than
Get
Oftentimes
Just
Scripts
Rarely in film acting do you get to do a scene for very long.
Sissy Spacek
You
Long
Rarely
Scene
Very
Get
Acting
Film
Film Acting
Nature is really big and loud the farther south you get.
Sissy Spacek
Nature
You
Big
South
Loud
Get
Really
Farther
Nothing in life prepared me for the way I felt about being a mother. Until then, I sort of felt like a blank sheet of paper. I was always trying to second-guess myself, to be what others wanted me to be.
Sissy Spacek
Life
Myself
Me
Mother
Nothing
Second-Guess
Others
Way
Paper
About
Blank
Like
Until
Sort
Sheet
Felt
Always
Trying
Being
Wanted
Then
Prepared
When I was a little kid, I used to spend a lot of time thinking about what I'd wish for if a magic fairy gave me three wishes. First, I wanted to be loved. Then, I wanted to be beautiful. And, finally, I'd wish for a million more wishes.
Sissy Spacek
Beautiful
Time
Me
Three
First
Wish
Thinking
Gave
Spend
Finally
Kid
Magic
About
More
Wishes
Fairy
Lot
Wanted
Loved
Little
Then
Little Kid
Used
Million
I'm not Meryl Streep. My God - she's the greatest actor that ever lived. It's sad that ordinary actors like me are compared to her.
Sissy Spacek
Sad
God
Me
Like
Meryl
Meryl Streep
She
Greatest
Ordinary
Compared
Lived
Actor
Ever
Her
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