Sissy Spacek

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.

I love the women I've played.

Some families can experience terrible tragedy and deal with it, and others not. I find those things fascinating.

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.

Our perception of celebrities in Hollywood is not the reality. The reality of our lives is so much like everyone else's life. We have family members we love, everyone gets up in the morning, they have three meals a day and they go about their business.

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.

I need to fill myself up with real life. That's kind of the well I draw from.

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.

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.

You need to live life to be able to have something to draw from.

Our life is our life. If we waste it, we're fools.

For me, life is a bowl of cherries.