A great screenplay is the most powerful bait in Hollywood.

I lived an idyllic 'Huckleberry Finn' life in a tiny town. Climbing trees. Tagging after brothers. Happy. Barefoot on my pony. It was 'To Kill a Mockingbird'-esque.

You shouldn't change what you are in the search for success.

The name Sissy came because my brothers called me that.

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.

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

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.

When I'm pushing myself, testing myself, that's when I'm happiest. That's when the rewards are greatest.

I may be ignorant but I ain't stupid!

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

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.

The way we relate with people is the same way we relate with God

I wish you a blessed Christmas and a wonderful New Year.

Secrets have a way of making themselves felt, even before you know there's a secret.

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.

Everyone surrounding you has gone through similar things. The search for love or the desire to have a family or the loss of a child.

My son, you are now flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone. By the ceremony performed this day, every drop of white blood was washed from your veins; you were taken into the Shawnee Nation.

I think that any of the places that's cut off from money, things come up, what the people have to rely on.

I collect books, a lot of books.

My children are lovely. They're perfect.

Loyal? As loyal as anyone who plays second fiddle ever is.