Sissy Spacek Quotes

If you're not doing it for the right reasons, then you'd be dumb to be making documentaries.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity.

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

The enormous potentiality for nature’s bounty and men’s capacity to differentiate their experience can become valued by the individual himself so that he will not be tempted and coerced into adjustment

… one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.

We saw in him what we seek in ourselves.

For me to get up and feel the urge to go to the set and all that, I have to feel there is something tremendously vibrating to achieve there. I need to lose sometimes a consciousness of the person and the reality in order to be happy to come back into the reality and happier to live it for this cause, to be an artist in this life.

It just seemed hedonistic when I first started acting. It was a pleasurable thing. But as I look back on it now, I understand that it was a journey of the self for me.

How can I stop acting? I don't think there is a full stop. Maybe the only time I will stop will be when acting stops fascinating me. I will have to find something that fascinates me more.

I'm not a mad genius or anything, but I'm just constantly driven to make things up, but I wonder who I'm doing all this for?

I consider myself as a human being with lots of ups and downs and learning from a lot of failures before I can succeed.

We're all trying to figure out on a daily basis what kind of person to be, aren't we? I am, at least.

I hope that I'm also maturing emotionally as a human being as things go on.

I love to watch human beings figuring out their limitations.

I keep rediscovering myself with every film. It is great to be doing that, it gives great satisfaction.

The true artform is being a human being.

If you're looking for self-help, why would you read a book written by somebody else?

I've always been fascinated by this idea of who we are versus who we want to be.

I know myself, I'm learning myself. I'm growing, I'm maturing.

I just surprise myself every day.

I think the better actor I am, the better person I become.

I just want to be the greatest man that I can be while I'm alive, and in that, you have to find the truth. Find the hard truth about yourself.

I understand my own strengths.

Ultimately, I want people to be inspired to go on their own journey of self-discovery.