Sissy Spacek

Actress

1949-12-25

Sissy Spacek is an American actress and singer known for Carrie, Coal Miner's Daughter, and In the Bedroom. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Coal Miner's Daughter.

Books by Sissy Spacek

Barefoot stories
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Quotes by Sissy Spacek

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.
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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.
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When I started out in independent films in the early '70s, we did everything for the love of art. It wasn't about money and stardom. That was what we were reacting against. You'd die before you'd be bought.
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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.
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I am a woman of simple tastes.
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It's not seeing myself 40 feet tall on a movie screen - it's the work. That's what thrills me.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I studied homeopathy for years and years. Herbs and all kinds of acupuncture, acupressure, alternative medicine. I think it's just better to treat the whole person.
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