I make decisions for my life, not the other way around. Besides, when you have a kid, you must weigh everything against time with your child.

You've got the whole civil rights movements emanating from the south, you've got the music that came out of the south that is the core of our current music, so for me that thinking comes out of having Dukes of Hazzard thrown in your face: that the south is a bunch of twangy people that I can't understand. So this is, hopefully, part of the movement to restore the south to its proper and rightful place in our nation... which is huge and pervasive. It's not about Texas - I'm not saying Texas doesn't have it's own unique history - but the south has this at its core.

I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?

People pay to see movies with women looking beautiful, but I think there will be a place for me to play women looking my own age.

I don't believe in careers. I believe in work. I'm not interested in some 'big picture that would be really good for me'.

I don't think it is worth trying to look 10 years younger through surgery.

I do not need a lot of money to be happy.