A biography for Sissy Spacekhasn’t been written yet.
“Jingle taps on the majorette boots were an important part of a little girl growing up in the South.”
“I used to play softball every summer back in Quitman. My two brothers demanded I be tough. There were certain girls they wouldn't let me invite over because they were too feminine and fragile.”
“Film is an amazing art form, but so is life. When your career and your life can work together, and one can support the other, it's just great.”
“There's nothing like not washing your teeth or washing your face or brushing your teeth in the morning.”
“I like to do films that I would want to go see, basically. I'm not out to make a fast buck.”
“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.”
“There have been several television movies, 'Carrie 2,' two musicals! I remember thinking, the first time there was a musical on Broadway, 'Oh my gosh! The people who ordinarily go to the theaters, that's not really the audience.'”
“It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.”
“We like to believe we are in control of our destinies, even though we never are and we never have been.”
“I think that no human gets away unscathed in this old life. We've all experienced loss and grief and pain and tragedy.”
“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.”
“The important thing is to be part of a good project with good, talented people.”
“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.”
“For me, I never really wanted to be in a 'Sissy Spacek' vehicle. That was not my intention. I got to be the 'Everygirl.'”
“Nature is really big and loud the farther south you get.”
“Everybody who loves me calls me Sissy, so I guess that's just who I am. When I'm 80, they'll still be calling me Sissy. Oh, well, I guess there are worse things.”
“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.”
“Ultimately, you have to work for your own enlightenment - for smarts - or it gets boring.”
“If somebody wants to think of me as a movie star, that's fine, that's great. It sort of makes me giggle.”
“There's something about Southern characters.”