Sissy Spacek

I'm a flower gardener.

I hated country music growing up, but it gets in your bone marrow, kind of like a disease.

I swore to my parents that no one would ever be able to buy me.

I am a woman of simple tastes.

I follow the roles.

I think that we all fantasize about that teeny tiny time in the film industry when women ruled, back in the '40s.

There are fewer roles, and I've done so many things already that I don't want to repeat, so to find something you haven't done is harder. I don't want to play a country singer again.

There's kind of a time you get warned about where the rug gets pulled out from under you: beyond ingenue, before you get into character stuff.

I've done some of my best work in films that fell right through the cracks, so I try to not make career moves but to build a body of work.

You get angry and frustrated wondering, 'Are there enough parts for women?'

I've been into exercise my whole life, been a runner and been into health and fitness always.

I think the thread running through most midwives is the passion.

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.

The business has been good to me.

If you live only a movie-star life, you know only movie-star things. I needed to live a regular life with normal people around.

What's normal? I think I'm normal... Maybe I'm abnormal because I get such a thrill from real life, just real life, everyday things.

I loved growing up in a little town. I loved knowing people. I loved going to the store and running into people. I loved going into the store and having forgotten my bag, saying, 'Charge it, put it on my bill.' I loved going to the gas station and saying, 'Pete, fill it up.' I loved that continuity of life.

If somebody wants to think of me as a movie star, that's fine, that's great. It sort of makes me giggle.

Junior and senior high school years were not a good time.

Nature is my church. The wind in the trees and the bugs and the frogs. All those things are comfort to me.

You know, I don't know what the future will bring, but I'm ready for whatever comes!