Sissy Spacek Quotes

I'm surprised as anyone about where I've ended up. Maybe it's because I say yes to things.

I never knew modelling was what I wanted to do. I was just meandering through life having fun, having a laugh with my friends.

When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know who you want to be along that journey.

In 10 years, I don't really know what I'll be, and I like not having any idea. I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.

I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work.

When I was younger, I talked to the adults around me that I respected most about how they got where they were, and none of them plotted a course they could have predicted, so it seemed a waste of time to plan too long-term. Since then, I've always gone on my instincts.

I'm essentially the result of other people's imagination. And that's fine. Because of other people's imagination, I've played parts I would never have thought I could do. Still, I've never had a hankering or an ambition for any particular role.

I just sort of follow my bliss, so to speak, and then I see where that takes me.

Life drew me and I followed it.

I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.

Somewhere in your career, your work changes. It becomes less anal, less careful and more spontaneous, more to do with the information that your soul carries.

Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go.

We all have our paths in life we are supposed to follow to find who we are supposed to be, but it's not always a straight path. There is something inside of us that guides us, and if you are quiet and listen to it, you'll be all right.

I finally realized that yeah I did want to be an actor and it wasn't out of habit, but I needed to grow up for myself and then kind of re-enter the industry with a sound understanding of what my sensibilities and my values are as a relatively formed human being.

I like to challenge myself. Whether that's on television or film or on stage, that's what I'm going to go for.

I wanted to create a body of work that I was proud of. It's come from honesty and integrity, without forcing anything from myself, the ideas had to come instinctively and organically. Whether that translates to people in that way, it's kind of out of my hands now.

Over the years I've grown to love the industry, my job, and the profession itself. It's been a journey full of ups and downs. For the first few years, it was a journey of self discovery where I grew to love acting while acting.

My journey was a very organic journey.

My life and career is defined by the constant pursuit of new forms of culture and self-expression.

I didn't know what I wanted to do until I was 40. Seriously.

Lot of people know very early what they want, but I didn't know I wanted acting.

With acting, I started as a kid and it was my safe space and the place where I felt the most free to be all of myself. What gets explored in our show is where that instinct starts and where it meets with career, and how that can change your path a bit.

I knew I was going to be composing. It all makes sense in retrospect. But you don't know while you're in the process of improvising your life.

I'm simply interested in what is going to happen next. I don't think I can control my life or my writing. Every other writer I know feels he is steering himself, and I don't have that feeling. I don't have that sort of control. I'm simply becoming. I'm startled that I became a writer.

I don't think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but wherever it was, that was where I wanted to go.