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Sissy Spacek Biography

Mary Elizabeth "Sissy" Spacek (/ˈspeɪsɛk/; born December 25, 1949) is an American actress and singer. She began her career in the early 1970s and first gained attention for her role in the film Badlands (1973). Her major breakthrough 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 (a rare feat for an actor or actress in a horror film). She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Loretta Lynn in the 1980 film Coal Miner's Daughter, and also earned a Grammy nomination for the song "Coal Miner's Daughter" from the film's soundtrack. She went on to receive further Oscar nominations for her roles in Missing (1982), The River (1984), Crimes of the Heart (1986) and In the Bedroom (2001). Coal Miner's Daughter and Crimes of the Heart also won her the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy.

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I wanted to put all my family stories down for my girls, and I remember everything so vividly. I just wanted to put everything down while I still can remember it all.

Girl, Girls, Remember, Remembers Everything, Stories, Vividly

Our perception of celebrities in Hollywood is not the reality. The reality of our lives is so much like everyone else's life. We have family members we love, everyone gets up in the morning, they have three meals a day and they go about their business.

Gets, Life, Like, Morning, Perception, Reality

You know, your career is just your career; your life is your life!

Career, Careers, Know, Life, Life Is, True Life

I've not had a mean life.

Life, Mean, Meaning Life

Fame sweeps you away. I had to go home every six months to remember who I am.

Away, Home, Months, Six Months, Who I Am

It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.

Arc, Character, Exactly, Film, Way

You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them.

Details, Forget, Movie, Movies

I was always proud about being from Texas and, you know, maybe that was part of fearlessness. I love the fact that Texas is so big, but you don't feel small because of that.

Facts, Fearlessness, Maybe, Part, Proud, Texas

I've always been a people-watcher, and as an actor, later, I just mined all those little details.

Actor, Actors, Details, Mined, People

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.

Airplane, Cattle, Character, Live, Nothing, Texas

I listened to that voice inside me-. . . Everyone has an inner voice; you just have to listen to it and trust it in order to be led by it. I did that, and it gave me the ability to live a life that's true to who I am and what I really wanted.

Ability, Inner, Order, Voice, Who I Am

I don't take characters home with me.

Character, Characters, Home, Take

Most things in my life I had before leaving home. Values, support, great family. I was shaped at an early age. A musician playing guitar, I wanted to be a folk singer.

Guitar, Home, Musician, Playing, Support

You know, I don’t know what the future will bring, but I’m ready for whatever comes!

Bring, Future, Know, Knows, Ready

Banana Splits for Breakfast. I think I ate about five.

Ate, Breakfast, Ice Cream, Think, Thinking

The name Sissy came because my brothers called me that.

Brother, Brothers, Came, My Brother, Name, Names

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.

Away, Chipping, Chipping Away, Confines, Keep, Thinking

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.

Baby, Consumed, Leaving, New York, Seemed, Worry

I may be ignorant but I ain't stupid!

Ignorant, May, Stupid

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.

Dozen, Motherhood, Social, Social Values, Value, Years

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