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
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.
I don't take characters home with me.
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.
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.
It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.
I've always been a people-watcher, and as an actor, later, I just mined all those little details.
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 know, I don't know what the future will bring, but I'm ready for whatever comes!
I had no fear 'cause it seemed everyone in the audience always applauded whatever I did. Course, maybe it was because I always seemed to know everyone in the audience.
My parents were devoted. Civic minded. We had family counsels. Three of us children against two of them. We lived a 'Leave It to Beaver' time.
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.
But you finally think, there is what there is, and you have to work within those confines and just keep chipping away at your own work.