Sissy Spacek Quotes

I wouldn't have been able to move to L.A. if I felt I was going to lose my identity as a New Jerseyian. My accent has gotten thicker since I've lived here.

I come from Texas. We're a different brand of people. You're not changing who I am.

I still think probably the only thing I'm suited for is being a boy from Texas.

All we did was take what we were and brought it forward. We obviously had a great amount of pride in being from Texas.

I'm a New Yorker. Matter of fact, the more I'm in places like Texas and California, the more I know I'm a New Yorker. I have no confusions. About that.

You can take the boy out of the Midwest, but you can't take the Midwest out of the boy.

Continuity is one of the things I like about New England.

If you go down to Texas, people are real proud about and they rep Texas.

Everybody is a regionalist. Tolstoy is a regionalist - one is where one lives, where one writes.

When I was growing up in Texas, I didn't think there was anywhere else to live; that's how we're raised in Texas.

In the beginning, I tried to be a more cosmopolitan writer, but I realized that I was a country boy, and I had to deal with things I knew about and where I came from.

We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to nourish us, we would be like plants set in shallow soil. Our souls must take root - almost literally.

It's the South that maintains the idea that they're different, which is interesting because nobody else really cares.

If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?

Someone once claimed I was not really a Yorkshireman!

We are fans because the game also appeals to our local pride, our pleasure in thinking of ourselves as, yes, Americans but nonetheless different from residents of other towns, other states, other regions.

I'm proud of where I'm from. I'm proud of Long Island.

But I'm a citizen of Texas and try to spend most of my time there.

If you ain't Texan, I ain't got time for you.

Saying you're from Texas makes you kind of proud.

The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section the people seemed to be born fighters, the instinct being inherited from a long line of ancestors.

I still feel like I'm the girl from Texas.

I still think of myself as a Bostonian.

I don't want people to think I'm not proud to represent Texas.

I'm from the north. You can take the boy out of the north but you can't take the north out of the boy.