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.
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.
You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them.
[about her daughter Schuyler Fisk becoming an actress] "The business has been good to me. I would be a hypocrite if I tried to convince her not to do this."
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." - Parade, April 1, 200
[on why she didn't want to appear in The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999)] "I asked if they could use some backflashes instead. I enjoyed the sequel, but hated my role in the first film. I was awful."
My cousin, Rip Torn, persuaded me not to change my name. You shouldn't change what you are in the search for success.
There's a real danger in trying to stay king of the mountain. You stop taking risks, you stop being as creative, because you're trying to maintain a position. Apart from anything else that really takes the fun out of it.
When I started out in independant films in the early 70s, we did everything for the love of art. It wasn't about money and stardom. That was what we were reacting against. You'd die before you'd be bought.
"Sissy" was a nickname that her brothers used to call her when she was growing up, and it stayed with her. During her audition for Carrie (1976), she wore a dress that her mother forced her to wear to a party when she was in the seventh grade.
Not only did she win an Oscar for her performance in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), but she was nominated for a Grammy for her rendition of the title song in the category Best Country Vocal Performance, Female.
Attended Quitman High School in Quitman, Texas. She was a majorette and homecoming queen.
Lives with her husband Jack Fisk and their daughters Schuyler Fisk and Madison Fisk.
She first got into acting when she was visiting her cousin, actor Rip Torn.
Attended the Lee Strasburg Institute.
Was the first choice to play the daughter in Terms of Endearment (1983).
Released a country LP titled Hangin' Up My Heart on Atlantic Records in 1983.
Decided to skip college after her older brother, Robbie, died at 18 years of age in 1967 from leukemia during her senior year in high school. She decided life was way too short to waste it in four years of college.
Lives on 300 acre farmland named "Beau Val" near Charlottesville, Virginia.
Brother Ed is a music industry consultant in Austin, Texas.
Measurements: 34B-24-35 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
Was Homecoming Queen of her Senior Class in High School.
Godmother of Rebecca Taylor.
One of a chosen few to be Oscar nominated for a lead performance in a horror film -- Carrie (1976).
Her performance as Carrie White in Carrie (1976) is ranked #63 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.
Frequently works with Tommy Lee Jones, having appeared with him in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), JFK (1991), and The Good Old Boys (1995) (TV). Separately, they have also each appeared in films in the Lonesome Dove series. Jones appeared in the original "Lonesome Dove" (1989) (mini), while Spacek appeared in "Streets of Laredo" (1995) (mini).
Is 3rd cousin to actor Cillian De Ros.
She won an Oscar for playing Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), making her one of eleven actors to win the Award for playing a real person who was still alive at the evening of the Award ceremony (as of 2007). The other ten actors and their respective performances are: Spencer Tracy for playing Father Edward Flanagan in Boys Town (1938), Gary Cooper for playing Alvin C. York in Sergeant York (1941), Patty Duke for playing Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker (1962), Jason Robards for playing Benjamin Bradlee in All the President's Men (1976), Robert De Niro for playing Jake La Motta in Raging Bull (1980), Susan Sarandon for playing Sister Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking (1995), Geoffrey Rush for playing David Helfgott in Shine (1996), Julia Roberts for playing Erin Brockovich in Erin Brockovich (2000), Jim Broadbent for playing John Bayley in Iris (2001/I) and most recently Helen Mirren for playing Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen (2006).
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