Sissy Spacek
Sissy Spacek
Mary Elizabeth "Sissy" Spacekis an American actress and singer. She began her career in the early 1970s and first gained attention for her role in the film Badlands. Her career-defining role came in 1976 when she played the title character of Carrie White in Brian De Palma's horror film Carrie, based on the first novel by Stephen King, for which she earned an Oscar nomination. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Loretta Lynn in...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth25 December 1949
CityQuitman, TX
CountryUnited States of America
My cousin, Rip Torn, persuaded me not to change my name. You shouldn't change what you are in the search for success.
Jingle taps on the majorette boots were an important part of a little girl growing up in the South.
I had a dozen years to act before starting a family, then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.
You relate to a character and you find that character within yourself. It's all parts of me. I don't leave characters behind. I just let them go.
I don't take characters home with me.
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.
If I hadn't left Texas, I might not have met the director Terrence Malick, and I wouldn't have met my husband and I wouldn't have had the children that I've had. Life is interesting like that.
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.
Texas is just so rich with characters. Women who live alone in a little house on a thousand acres with nothing but cattle and a pickup truck. And an airplane.
A great screenplay is the most powerful bait in Hollywood.
You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them.
I didn't worry about leaving the fast lane - I was just so consumed with my baby that it seemed like the right thing to do. I never felt like I left New York, though. If you've lived in a place and loved it, you never feel like you left it.