Sissy Spacek Quotes

People have said to me, 'It must be nice to prove so many people wrong,' but I've never really cared about proving anything to anybody else.

She told me I wasn't playing for the coach, I was playing for myself.

I wanted to prove to myself I can do something on my own. Not for the world, but for myself. To have that self-confidence.

My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.

It doesn't matter that I didn't win a trophy because I did it my way and I lived the dream.

I'm not playing to prove anything to anybody.

I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.

It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves.

My only sure reward is in my actions, not from them.

Popularity isn't an objective in itself. I'm not in this game.

I feel like I don't really care about impressing other people. I thoroughly enjoy impressing myself.

I have nothing to prove to anyone but myself.

I don't feel that I have to prove anything to anyone as far as what I've done in fighting.

Of course it's nice to get recognition, but I'm not looking for it. I just do my thing. If it comes, it comes. But it's not what you play for.

I've said it lots of times before, I play for myself, so I'm not worried about other people's expectations.

I've always felt a strong urge to prove myself.

At the end of the day, nobody has higher expectations for me than myself. I don't really try to prove anyone wrong anymore as much as I try to prove myself right.

I always just focus on what my own goals are, and not what anybody else's goals for me are or their expectations. I just know that my family will always be supporting me and my friends and my coaches. And as long as I put in the hard work and know that I'm giving it my best effort, I will always be happy.

You need to feel good about yourself, the motivation has to come from within. You have nobody to fall back on except yourself.

I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.

Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.

I also feel I adapted. I was willing to try to fit into any role. The way I figured, it was always up to me to prove my worth, that I deserved to be here.

I have never been insecure, ever, about how I look, about what I want to do with myself. My mum told me to only ever do things for myself, not for others.

I take none of that to heart. I don't feel like there's anything that I need to do for anybody else. I want to win bad enough for myself anyway, that nothing anybody can say can make me want to win any more.

No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.